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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

CHAPTER V
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The number of their missionaries now in Jamaica is sixteen, the number of Chapels is thirty-one, and the number of members thirty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty.

The increase of members during the year 1836 was three thousand three hundred and forty-four.
At present the missionary field is mostly engrossed by the Baptists and Wesleyans.

The Moravians are the next most numerous body.

Besides these, there are the clergy of the English Church, with a Bishop, and a few Scotch clergymen.

The Baptist missionaries, as a body, have been most distinguished for their opposition to slavery.


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