Protestant Missionaries in Cuba: Archival Records, Manuscript Collections, and Research Prospects

They arrived first in July 1898 in scattered numbers, in the company of an army of conquest, and subsequently in successive waves during the military occupation. By the time U.S. military rule over Cuba came to an end in May 1902, no less than a score of Protestant denominations had inaugurated evangelical activities in Cuba, including Northern and Southern Baptists, Southern Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, the Disciples of Christ, Quakers, Pentecostalists, and Congregationalists. In fact, so many missionaries arrived in Cuba at one time that denominational competition quickly got out of hand. In February 1902, an interdenominational conference convened in Cienfuegos to impose order on the U.S. evangelical enterprise.

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Como citar: Pérez, L. A. (1992). Protestant Missionaries in Cuba: Archival Records, Manuscript Collections, and Research Prospects. Latin American Research Review, 27(1), 105–120. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2503719