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 on a national basis. In ...

in 1842 after a dispute over slavery and helped organize the Wesleyan Methodist Church the next year. He was also a noted mental philosopher.

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