Our Cause for His Glory
Subtitle: Christianization and Emancipation in Jamaica
Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
Published: 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9789766400514
Subjects: Christianity; History; Slavery & emancipation; History: World; Religion - Church History; Jamaica; General; Religion - General; Caribbean & West Indies - General
First sentence: The religious life of the Jamaican people in the three decades following full emancipation of the slaves was largely influenced by their socioeconomic prospects in the new free society and by their changing fortunes in the declining prosperity of the island.