Conversion as an Act of Reclamation: John and Charles Wesley’s Interaction with Two West African Enslaved Men

SÈGBÉGNON MATHIEU GNONHOSSOU is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Seattle Pacific University and Seminary and an Affiliate Visiting Professor of Wesleyan Missiology at Université Protestante de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (UPAO), Porto-Novo, Bénin. He received his PhD in Theology from the University of Manchester and his DMin from Asbury Theological Seminary. An elder in the Free Methodist Church, he serves as an assistant volunteer pastor of Wesleyan discipleship at First Free Methodist Church, Seattle, Washington.

KELLY DIEHL YATES (PhD, University of Manchester) is the founder and director of the Walt Crow Center, a retreat centre for pastors in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is an adjunct professor for Indiana Wesleyan University. Ordained in the Church of the Nazarene, she has been a senior pastor and an associate pastor in Oklahoma and Arkansas. She is the author of The Limits of a Catholic Spirit: John Wesley, Methodism, and Catholicism, one of the editors for volume 14 of The Works of John Wesley, and has several published articles on the history of Methodism.