18 million dollars will be spent in Barbados over the next 10-15 years to support a reparations project associated with the former Codrington Plantations.
It will involve among other things, helping descendants of slaves to buy lots.
The announcement has come from General Secretary of the United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) Reverend Dr. Duncan Dormor at a press conference at Codrington College.
The USPG is the successor to the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, the SPG.
Reverend Dormor says SPG benefitted from the labour of enslaved people on the Codrington Estate between 1710 and 1838 and the reparations project is part of an ongoing commitment to engage with its shameful history.
The Codrington Reparations Project is being administered in partnership with the Codrington Trust and Church in the province of the West Indies.
Dr. Dormor says it will also include community development and engagement, historical research and education, work to identify burial places and memorialisation.
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