Codrington College

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Codrington College
motto Vultus in Hostem
founding 1745
Sponsorship state
place St. John , Barbados
Principal Michael Clarke
Website www.codrington.org
Codrington College.

Codrington College is an Anglican theological college in St. John , Barbados .

The college was founded with funds from the legacy of Christopher Codrington , who after his death in 1710 bequeathed parts of his sugar cane plantations , the so-called Codrington Plantations , as well as lands on Barbados and Barbuda to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , with the condition to start a college in Barbados. Construction began as early as 1714 and the college finally opened on September 9, 1745.

history

The college initially offered basic courses, but expanded the offer to advanced courses as early as 1748. Typically, the Codrington studies were the preparatory studies for sons of the local nobility before going to university in England. The first ordination of a graduate took place in 1759 and since the 1830s only studies in preparation for ordination have been offered. Codrington College became one of the earliest theological seminaries in the Church of England and the "oldest (Anglican) seminary in the Western Hemisphere". Comparable "seminars" are only available at the University of Wales Lampeter (St. David's College Lampeter), in Chelsea (Manhattan) ( General Theological Seminary ) and in Alexandria (Virginia) ( Virginia Theological Seminary ). The Chichester Theological College , the first such college in England, was opened. 1839

In 1831 the campus was almost completely destroyed by a hurricane , but it was rebuilt.

In 1875 the college was attached to the University of Durham , which awarded the degrees until 1958; thereafter the college went into a partnership with the University of the West Indies from 1965 . Through its association with Durham, Codrington offered degrees in Classical Studies and Theology . Since 1955 there have only been theological degrees. From 1955 to 1959 the college was run by men from the Community of the Resurrection . Post-graduate courses have also been offered since 1989 and there is an extensive training program for laypeople.

The college maintains several archives on the SPG, the Church Mission Society , the Baptist Missionary Society related to the West Indies , and the history of the Presbyterian Church of Trinidad and Grenada .

slavery

The plantations were managed by slaves according to the system of that time . This also made the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts an important slave owner in Barbados in the 18th and early 19th centuries. While the goal was to raise funds for college, society benefited from the unpaid and forced labor of thousands of slaves at Codrington Plantations . During this period, many institutions were funded from funds acquired through slave labor and trafficking, such as All Souls College and Harvard University . The ownership of the Codrington Plantations has been a constant source of controversy for the SPG and the Church of England . In 1741 slaves from the Bridgetown plantations protested their treatment by the SPG representative, but it would be decades before slavery was abolished. In 1783, Bishop Beilby Porteus , an early pioneer of abolitionism , used the annual SPG sermon to portray the conditions on the Codrington Plantations and called on the SPG to finally give up their association with the slave trade. But it wasn't until 1833 that the SPG dissolved their slave ownership after the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force. At the meeting of the General Synod of the Church of England in February 2006, delegates unanimously voted to apologize to the descendants of the slaves after recalling the Church's role in enforcing the Slave Trade Act 1807 .

Personalities

literature

  • Harry J. Bennett: Bondsmen and Bishops: Slavery and Apprenticeship on the Codrington Plantations of Barbados, 1710-1838. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1958.
  • Vincent T. Harlow: Christopher Codrington III : 1667-1710, London: Hurst & Company; New York: St. Matrin's Press, 1990, 1928.
  • John W. Holder: Codrington College: A Brief History. Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean Contact, 1988.
  • FA Hoyos: Two Hundred Years: A History of the Lodge School, 1745-1945. Barbados: Advocate, 1945.
  • Frank J. Klingburg: Codrington Chronicle: An Experiment in Anglican Altruism on a Barbados Plantation, 1710-1834. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University Press of California, 1949.
  • Thomas Parry : Codrington College, in the Island of Barbados . Society for the Propagation of the Gospel , London 1847.
  • Robert H. Schomburgk: The History of Barbados. Comprising a Geographical and Statistical Description of the Island, a Sketch of the Historical Events Since the Settlement, and an Account of its Geology and Natural Productions, London: Frank Cass, 1971, 1848.
  • Alan Wilkinson, The Community of the Resurrection: A Centenary History . SCM Press 1992. ISBN 978-0-334-02526-9 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Facing the enemy
  2. ↑ http://www.codrington.org/site/index.php/historical-overview
  3. ↑ http://www.codrington.org/site/index.php/message-from-the-principal
  4. ↑ Parry 1847. p. 11
  5. ↑ Wilkinson 1992. p. 269
  6. ↑ Craig Wilder: Ebony and Ivy : Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities. Bloomsbury Press, New York 2013. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-59691-681-4
  7. ^ Stephen Bates: Church apologizes for benefitting from slave trade. The Guardian, February 7, 2006, accessed June 25, 2015 .

Coordinates: 13 ° 10 ′ 30.8 "  N , 59 ° 28 ′ 31.1"  W.