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.
