A Sion College Seminar with Duncan Dormor: Contested Heritage: Making Repair?

Between 1712 and 1836, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG), a voluntary society composed of leading members of the Church of the England, owned and managed the Codrington Estates in Barbados participating in the inhumane and brutal system of racialized plantation chattel slavery. During this period between 1,000 and 1,700 individuals lived within this brutal system and were subjected to inhumane treatment as enslaved persons. In 2024, USPG made a public apology for its past actions, and in partnership with the Codrington Trust, launched Renewal and Reconciliation: The Codrington Project, committing to investing £7M into a range of programmes of reparatory justice over a 10-15 year period.

The Revd Canon Dr Duncan Dormor is the General Secretary of the United Society Partners in the Gospel, the mission agency which works across the Anglican Communion to rethink mission, energise church and champion justice through mission programmes. An Anglican priest, author, teacher, and international speaker, he previously served as Dean of Chapel and President of St John’s College, Cambridge and taught sociology in the Cambridge Divinity Faculty. Duncan holds degrees in Human Sciences, Theology and Demography and is a member of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland’s Mission and Theological Apologetics Group. He is a Canon Theologian of Portsmouth Cathedral.

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