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Interior of church meeting room, Morant Bay, Bahamas, ca. 1910

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"Interior of booth in which the Ebenezer Church, Morant Bay Circuit, meets for worship and where the Sunday School is held." Interior of small wooden thatched room with table at one end.The earliest Wesleyan mission began in the West Indies when, in 1786, Thomas Coke, destined for Nova Scotia, was driven off course by a storm and landed at Antigua in the British West Indies. There he dieveloped a successful mission of both slaves and landowners. Within a few years almost every colony in the West Indies had been reached.
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Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United KingdomTrustees for Methodist Church PurposesUniversity of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Librarydocenquiry@soas.ac.ukhttp://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
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  1. Interior Views
  2. Religious Buildings
  3. Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society

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