Ownership: The Evangelical Legacy of Slavery in Edwards, Wesley, and Whitefield

The Gospel Coalition Book Awards Award of Distinction–History and Biography

Men of their time?

Jonathan Edwards, John Wesley, and George Whitefield were the three most prominent early evangelicals—and all three were deeply compromised on the issue of slavery. Edwards and Whitefield both kept slaves themselves, and Wesley failed to speak out against slavery until near the end of his life.

In Ownership, Sean McGever tells the true story of these men's relationship...