Title: The missionary outreach of the West Indian church
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Baptists, Baptists, Black, Black Baptists, Church history, History, Missions, Missions, africa, west
Places: Equatorial Guinea, Fernando Po, Fernando Po (Equatorial Guinea), Jamaica, West Africa
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: BV3625.G82 R87 2000