Emancipation to Reconciliation: Anglican Ministry to the Enslaved in the Late 18th - Early 19th Century Caribbean · Caribbean Challenges History Project

Topic Title

Emancipation to Reconciliation: Anglican Ministry to the Enslaved in the Late 18th - Early 19th Century Caribbean

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Topic Summary Description

Understanding the Anglican ministers’ work to ameliorate the enslaved and then to emancipate helps us realize the start of a humanitarian ministry to Britain’s overseas colonies and as a watershed event for the future Era of Reconciliation in the modern global Anglican Church. This project also discusses the loss of the Anglican Church’s identity as “the Empire’s Church” and how modern reconciliation helps the church find its new identity in the postcolonial 21st century. Britain has long underdeveloped the Caribbean, and it has called for reparations. This project delves into the legacies of colonialism and slavery that have built Caribbean society, and how modern movements have sought to reconcile the colonial injustice.

Student Name

Jonah Downs

Chronology

1701: Founding of SPG
1710: Codrington College was gifted to SPG in the Caribbean
1783-90: John Ramsay’s ministry on St. Kitts
1807: Abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire
1823: Amelioration Laws
1824: The Diocese of the Bahamas and Barbados is established
1838: Abolition of slavery in the British Empire
2000: SPG disbanded
2013-2025: Justin Welby’s time as Archbishop of Canterbury

1701 – 2025

Nation(s) or Region(s) within the Caribbean

Jamaica, Barbados, Leeward Isles, Windward Isles