"It
was not at all agreeable to me to see nearly a hundred slaves standing outside,
and peeping in at the door, whilst the house was half empty: they were not
worthy to come in because they were black! Farewell, farewell to that house for
ever!"
Asbury never preached in that church again.
The antislavery campaign was strongly supported by Asbury and his preachers, one
of whom was nearly drowned by slave owners who held him under the village pump.