Abstract
The sect that came to be called Methodists had its beginnings in early 1729 when John Wesley and a small group of Oxford University friends formed a group that came to be known as the Holy Club. This chapter examines the organizational and administrative strategies designed by the leadership of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (WMMS) to attract committed men, train them for mission in the slave colonies, and later station and support their work in the slave colonies. The voluntarist form of salvation central to the evanelization process preached by Wesleyan Methodists and preached to enslaved Africans is interrogated. The efficacy of the evangelical message and the organizational strategies used by the Methodists to meet the spirtual and material needs, of enslaved and free blacks in the colonies are examined.
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