Abstract
Historian Jeffrey Cox states that the inhabitants of the West Indies and South Pacific were the first non-Christian peoples of the world who were Christianized relatively easily by Europeans specifically because these regions were outside the influence of non-Christian world religions (Cox 2008:249).
Hidden within Cox’s assertion are terrible historical facts about “the inhabitants who were beyond the reach of the large non-Christian world religions” (249). Initially, the established Roman Catholic Church in the Spanish and French West Indian colonies, and later British evangelical missionaries took Christianity to the inhabitants of the West Indies. However, the inhabitants of the West Indies, about whom Jeffrey Cox writes, were the tens of thousands of enslaved people who, over many generations, had been snatched from diverse ethnic groups and tribes in western Africa.
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Aymer, P.L. (2016). The Evangelical Gospel: Its Socioreligious Influences in the Caribbean. In: Evangelical Awakenings in the Anglophone Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56115-2_6
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