La Roy Sunderland (May 18, 1804 – May 15, 1885) was an American minister and abolitionist. He left the

Methodist Episcopal Church The Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC) was the oldest and largest Methodist denomination in the United States from its founding in 1784 until 1939. It was also the first religious denomination in the US to organize itself nationally. In 1939, th ...

in 1842 after a dispute over slavery and helped organize the Wesleyan Methodist Church the next year. He was also a noted mental philosopher. Sunderland was born on May 18, 1802 in Exeter, Rhode Island. He was an ordained clergyman in the

from 1826 to 1843, when he surrendered his surrendered his credentials. He formed the Methodist Antislavery Society in 1834 and wrote the essay “An Appeal on the Subject of Slavery” in the newspaper ''Zion’s Herald'' that year as well supporting abolitionism.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sunderland, La Roy 1804 births 1885 deaths Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church American abolitionists