Charles Wesley in America: Georgia, Charleston, Boston.

In 1736, acentury into Britain's expansion in North America, Charles Wesley arrived, anddeparted, the American colonies. His time in Georgia, where he was a missionaryof the Church of England, Colonel Oglethorpe's personal aide, and secretary ofIndian Affairs, was filled with discord and difficulty. Despite being treatedwarmly by the Anglican clergy of Boston, he struggled as a newly ordainedAnglican priest, and was enveloped by scandal when two women accused him andOglethorpe of moral impropriety.

Charles Wesley in America is the first comprehensive treatmentofthis period in Wesley's ministry. Kimbrough provides the first explanation ofWesley's silence following the Oglethorpe affair, and also examines hisnegative attitudes towards the Revolutionary War and nascent opposition toslavery. Drawing on primary sources such as Wesley's poetry and a rare letterexchange between two former slaves whom Wesley befriended in Bristol, Kimbroughgives fresh insight into this formative period and the impact it had onWesley's later career.