ABSTRACT
FROM the day the sun of negro freedom arose in 1834-, it washoped by all friends of Africa that, among the emancipated Christians of the West Indies, valuable agents would be found for propagating the gospel in the land of their progenitors. The
~ubject engaged the attention of our Presbytery in 1839. But on many essential points we were so deficient in infornlation, that we could resolve only to make it a matter of reflection, inquiry, and prayer. At its meeting, in 1840, vte resolved to come to our next meeting prepared for deciding the gra.ve question of a n1ission to Africa, from our Jamaica congregations.
