Jamaican and British Baptists in West Africa, 1841–1888

This article surveys West Africa outreach between 1841–1888 by the London-based Baptist Missionary Society (hereafter BMS) and the Kingston-based Jamaican Baptist Missionary Society (hereafter JBMS). Documentation focuses on responses of mission board leaders, missionaries, the local Creole communit...

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Main Author: Dekar, Paul R. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2001
In: Missiology
Year: 2001, Volume: 29, Issue: 4, Pages: 433-447
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Summary:This article surveys West Africa outreach between 1841–1888 by the London-based Baptist Missionary Society (hereafter BMS) and the Kingston-based Jamaican Baptist Missionary Society (hereafter JBMS). Documentation focuses on responses of mission board leaders, missionaries, the local Creole community, and African Christians to the reality of growing interference by European powers and the imposition of colonial rule on the region. This case study elucidates the complex role of missionaries in the process by which the West came to exercise political and economic domination of Africa. It complements a survey of the role of Black Americans in the Protestant missionary movement in Africa.1
ISSN:2051-3623
Contains:Enthalten in: Missiology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/009182960102900403