Abstract
IN 1701, WHEN Dr. Thomas Bray of London founded the distinguished religious and humanitarian Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, little did he realize that it would enter the Barbadian sugar business. But by 1710o, only nine years later, the S.P.G. had inherited through the generosity of Christopher Codrington two fine sugar plantations and three hundred slaves. Not only was the society instructed to manage the plantations, but it was also ordered to use the fruit of the slaves' toil to establish a monastic insti-
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