The purpose of the Church is to join with God’s mission of expressing love to all humanity and the whole of creation. However, being a human institution, the Church has often deviated from that purpose and is in need of constant reexamination and God’s guidance to correct its course.

USPG commissioned this resource to look at how, through its predecessor, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), the Church deviated significantly from its purpose by owning human beings on the Codrington estates in Barbados in the 18th and 19th centuries.

To prepare this resource, people from the island of Barbados, where the Codrington estates are located, shared with us their perspectives on the impact of this legacy on their lives and on their faith.

It is designed for those in Christian leadership, including lay leaders, clergy, and ordinands, who wish to deepen their understanding of how the Church’s history has shaped contemporary attitudes towards the Church and towards Christianity more broadly and how this insight can inform their approach to mission and ministry.

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