BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22@methodisthistoryireland.org DTSTART:20210422T193000Z DTEND:20210422T204500Z DTSTAMP:20210330T062650Z URL:https://methodisthistoryireland.org/events/mhsi-spring-lecture-three-m ethodist-ex-slaves-in-nineteenth-century-ireland/ SUMMARY:MHSI Spring Lecture - Three Methodist ex-slaves in nineteenth-centu ry Ireland DESCRIPTION:\n\nThe rapid growth of Methodism in America ensured that slave holders were well-represented in its congregations. So too were the victim s of slavery. This lecture explores the experience of three Methodist esca ped slaves who made their way to Ireland.\n\nNigerian-born John Jea\, ensl aved by Dutch farmers in New York. He was a writer of hymns in which slave ry illuminates redemption. He was a sailor who landed at Limerick to begin a street-preaching ministry\, before taking his Irish wife to minister in the slave-trading ports of England.\n\nFrederick Douglass\, an ex-slave a nd local preacher\, whose searing exposure of his Methodist owners’ crue lty caused such consternation in Wesley Chapel Cork\, that the leaders war ned their counterparts in Belfast to deny him the pulpit.\n\nAmanda Smith\ , escaped slave who found her call to preach rebuffed on grounds of gender . Drawn to Dublin by one faithful supporter\, her repeated tours of Irish churches helped to sustain her missionary work in Africa.\n\nLecturer - Ch ris Skillen He is the minister of Larne\, Craigyhill and Carnlough Methodi st Societies. He previously taught religious studies at Shimna Integrated College\, Newcastle\, and Russian studies at Queen’s University Belfast. \n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \;\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Public Lecture END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR