Persecutions Of The Wesleyan Methodists In St Domingo
We extract from the publications of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, the
following account of the aggressions committed upon the Protestant
population of Hayti, by the Roman Catholics of that Island, during the
year 1824.
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Persecution Of The Wesleyan Missionaries In The West Indies
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