Life and setting
Carey, an English Baptist cobbler and pastor, helped found the Baptist Missionary Society and went to India, where he worked in Bible translation, printing and education.
Modern Missions • Baptist
William Carey
1761 – 1834 • Missionary, translator and educator
Why this person matters
His 1792 missionary argument and long career helped inspire the modern Protestant missionary movement.
What should not be sanitized
Mission history must also be read in the context of empire, cultural encounter, local Christian agency and the limits of European missionary assumptions.