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North American Pentecostal missionaries began arriving in the British West Indian colonies in the 1950s with plans to take the evangelical message of salvation to the masses of poor descendants of enslaved Africans living there. However, Wesleyan Methodist missionaries had already established evangelization projects in these very islands beginning in the late eighteenth century, and clergy from the WMMS were still stationed there in the 1950s. However, by the mid-twentieth century, Wesleyan Methodism had lost its evangelical fervor and had become one of the established or mainline denominations in Britain’s West Indian colonies. In the Windward Islands and Barbados in the 1950s, the Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Methodists (and a few others) were the established colonial denominations, and these still held religious and social dominance as was reflected in the religious culture in the colonies, and on each denomination’s large baptismal membership rolls.
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Aymer, P.L. (2016). The Caribbean Religious Environment: The Twentieth Century. In: Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56115-2_4
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