These Church members worked unremittingly to call the church and country to oppose the West African trade in humans and abolish slavery. ”), and it led him to consider the question of the slave trade. He read everything he could on the subject, including first-hand accounts of the African slave trade. He also researched the topic by meeting and interviewing those who had personal experience of the slave trade and of slavery. In the abolition cause, he supported, researched, and lectured, whilst Wm Wilberforce was working in Parliament.