 | AFRICAN AMERICAN METHODIST HERITAGE CENTER (AAMHC) The history, heritage and hopes of United Methodists of African American descent are inextricably intertwined with the history, heritage and hopes of John Wesley's Methodism since its beginnings in North America. Yet, the whole church has been slow to celebrate that linkage, perhaps due to a lack of knowledge and understanding of that story of trials and triumphs. It is not widely known that: -In 1760, the first person of African heritage to be converted to Methodism was Peter Denis; -In 1765, when Robert Strawbridge preached in Baltimore one of the speakers was a man of African heritage, Caleb Hyland who later became a member of Sharp Street Methodist Church, one of Methodism's oldest African American churches; -The first Methodist class meeting in New York included a Black woman named Betty, a servant of Barbara Heck; -John Wesley himself chided a group at Fells Point in Baltimore for failing to include a group of Black persons as full participants; -Black Harry Hosier was a great preacher and colleague of Francis Asbury and along with Richard Allen was among the attendees at the Christmas Conference of 1784, when the Methodist Church in North America was organized. And the full and rich history of African Americans in Methodism is still to unfold. |
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