The missionary outreach of the West Indian church
Subtitle: Jamaican Baptist missions to West Africa in the nineteenth century
By: Horace O. Russell.
Series: Research in religion and family ;; vol. 3
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Baptists -- Missions -- Equatorial Guinea -- Fernando Po -- History -- 19th century.; Baptists -- Missions -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century.; Baptists, Black -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.; Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea) -- Church history -- 19th century.; Africa, West -- Church history -- 19th century.; Jamaica -- Church history -- 19th century.
Description: "The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church is the story of Jamaican Baptists, ex-slaves who, four years after Emancipation (1838), established a witness in the Cameroons (West Africa) in cooperation with their British pastors and with the reluctant aid of the Baptist Missionary Society of London. Professor Russell analyzes the relationship between the undertaking of the mission and the new self-awareness of a freed people.

The institutions created to achieve their aims are discussed and their fortunes are followed amid the chaotic ecclesiastical, economic, and political happenings consequent upon the Anglo/Hispanic rivalry at the time. The book is also a study of what happens when a mission-field becomes a mission agency with missionaries of its own."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-318) and index.