ABSTRACT
The islands in the Caribbean sun include three coastal territories of the American mainland, Honduras, Panama and Guyana. The Antigua District comprised the Leeward and Virgin Islands, the St Vincent District the Windward Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and the British Guiana District that part of the South American coastal belt which became Guyana. The first black minister in the Caribbean was John Hodge of Anguilla, who was ordained in 1822 and spent much of his ministry on his home island. In the South American colony of Demerara, William Claxton, a former slave from Nevis, had established a Society based on Methodist principles in 1811. The island Districts in the Pacific became part of the Australasian Conference in 1855 and their ministerial staff were no longer accountable to the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society (WMMS). Brown was however defended and supported by the Australian WMMS, continued his work and began to see its fruits in baptisms before he returned to Sydney.
