Anglican group launches £7m project in Barbados to atone for slavery atrocities

The project, which launches on Saturday, will focus on communities living on the Codrington estate in eastern Barbados. Once the site of two thriving sugar plantations, generating an estimated income of £5m a year in today’s money, the estate was owned by the planter Christopher Codrington. He bequeathed it to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), which would later become USPG.