Jamaican missionaries in Cameroon

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Title:	Jamaican missionaries in Cameroon
Author:	Slageren, Jaap van
Year:	2001
Periodical:	Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context
Volume:	30
Issue:	2
Pages:	145-156
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Cameroon Jamaica
Subjects:	missionary history Baptist Church
External link:	https://doi.org/10.1163/157254301X00093
Abstract:	Cameroon accepted Christianity through a great variety of denominational and national filters. In particular, Jamaican Baptists exercised a decisive influence on the course of missionary and church history of Cameroon. In 1842, the Jamaican Baptist Missionary Society (JBMS) was formed. In 1852 the Jamaican engagement ended with the sudden retreat of the Jamaican Baptist mission from the field. Nevertheless, a handful of Jamaicans, including Joseph Merrick, Joseph Jackson Fuller, and Mr. and Mrs. Richardson, continued to serve the Cameroon mission. Although their importance is usually not recognized, some form of Jamaican experience, especially in regard to a spirit of freedom and emancipation, remained a basic dimension of the identity of the Cameroon Christians and churches. The creation of churches which had the right to exist in their own spiritual way was a fruitful element of Jamaican activity, even when it was due to cause conflicts with the later German, French and Dutch missions. Ref.