{"id":2346,"date":"2026-10-02T10:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2026-10-02T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T09:22:33","slug":"the-codrington-project-through-the-eyes-of-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"The Codrington Project through the eyes of tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><strong>CLS Sunday Meeting 11 October at 2pm London time<\/strong><\/big><br \/>\n<small>[note 2nd Sunday as we are all going to <a href=\"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cable Street on the 4th<\/a>]<\/small><br \/>\nAll welcome, but you will need to register in advance:-<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/WcZ8Oi98SvC8gVkdIp1l7A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/ucl.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/WcZ8Oi98SvC8gVkdIp1l7A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speakers from <strong>The Codrington Estate Tenants and Farmers Union<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2347\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2347\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2347 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Codrington_slavery_plaque_1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Codrington_slavery_plaque_1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Codrington_slavery_plaque_1-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Codrington_slavery_plaque_1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Codrington_slavery_plaque_1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Codrington_slavery_plaque_1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plaque erected by the entrance to the All Souls College Library, Oxford to the enslaved who worked on the Codrington Plantations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There has been recent controversy in the press in Barbados about the Codrington Trust&#8217;s management of the Codrington Estate. There are also questions about the attitude of the Codrington Trust and the United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) to Reparations. From 1711-1835, the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), forerunner of the USPG, exploited the labour of enslaved persons on the Codrington Estates in Barbados thereby committing crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Come and hear the views of the tenants and farmers on the estate.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting will start with a brief introduction to the historical connection between Codrington and African enslavement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLS Sunday Meeting 11 October at 2pm London time [note 2nd Sunday as we are all going to Cable Street on the 4th] All welcome, but you will need to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2348,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions\/2348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}