Anne Hart Gilbert

AHG , a woman of colour, is remarkable not only for the leadership role she took in her Caribbean community during the early nineteenth century, but also for her writings. These (unpublished during her lifetime) comprise a letter containing a history of Methodism (and of slavery) on the island of Antigua, a memoir of her husband (apparently intended for publication), and other work still in manuscript. Her surviving writings, in Moira Ferguson 's Caribbean anthology, take up 32 pages. She destroyed other writings that were religious in nature.