Black Methodism in the United States

African Americans were drawn to Methodism due to the father of Methodism, John Wesley's "opposition to the whole system of slavery, his commitment to Jesus Christ, and the evangelical appeal to the suffering and the oppressed.

Like the AME Church, the AME Zion Church sent missionaries to Africa in the first decade after the American Civil War and it also has a continuing overseas presence.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded by Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816, and also split from the white-dominated Methodist Episcopal Church denomination to make an independent denomination.

[2] Its Women's Missionary Service, an NGO, operates in 32 countries.

[3] In the Free Methodist Church, African Heritage Network convenes to encourage black congregations and clergy within the denomination.

John Wesley AME Zion Church (est. 1847), located in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C.