The Missionary Outreach of the West Indian Church is the story of Jamaican Baptists exslaves 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 selfawareness 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 AngloHispanic rivalry at the time. The book is also a study of what happens when a missionfield becomes a mission agency with missionaries of its own.