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1852 ANTI-SLAVERY METHODISTS. Slavery Compromising Virginia Methodists Threatened with Expulsion. Ephemera to be granted the nextWe must compel that Annual Conference to carry out the [Methodist] Discipline on the subject of Slavery . . . or they must be expelled from communion in the Church. A fascinating letter, written shortly after the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act and after the split between the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South over the issue of slavery. Most of the churches in Virginia sided with and joined the M. E. C. South,