TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horace O. Russell
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1055-1158
TI  - The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church
T2  - Jamaican Baptist Missions to West Africa in the Nineteenth Century
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1090790
N2  - 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.
KW  - Emancipation, self-awareness, freed people
LA  - English
ER  -