Baptist and Methodist missionaries faced persecution and property losses after the 1831 rebellion, then took Jamaica’s case against slavery to London, where Knibb vowed to see it “destroyed root and branch” and emancipation followed in 1833.

As Britain’s United Reformed Church apologised in Kingston for its role in slavery, The United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands pledged to give vulnerable people land it had received from slavery’s profiteers, citing the damage done by landlessness.

Advisers told the Church of England its £100 million slavery fund is insufficient and should grow to £1 billion; the Church Commissioners, who manage over £10 billion, will now deploy the first £100 million within five years.

The Church Commissioners pledged £100m over nine years after research found a predecessor fund had invested heavily in the slave-trading South Sea Company, with the money earmarked for impact investment and projects for affected communities.

The Catholic Diocese of Rochester, bankrupt since 2019 after hundreds of abuse lawsuits, agreed to pay US$55 million into a trust for survivors of clergy sexual abuse, with further claims possible against its insurers.

Prince William and Catherine, Princess of Wales visit Jamaica in March 2022 and are met by reparations protests and a prime ministerial declaration of republican intent. More than 100 Jamaican leaders sign a formal slavery letter. The Windrush compensation scheme continues and 21 Jamaicans are rescued from a deportation charter flight. Our quarterly diaspora and Windrush update.

The heritage-listed Sandy Bay Anglican church in Hobart, held by the church for over 150 years, sold at auction for $4.6 million as the Tasmanian diocese sells property to help fund redress for abuse survivors.

The Benedictine Community of New Norcia in Western Australia decided to sell most of its 8,000-hectare farm, estimated at about $40 million, to meet redress for historical abuse and sustain the monastery.

A century after a white mob levelled 35 blocks of Tulsa’s prosperous Black Greenwood district, hundreds gathered at Vernon AME Church, which members rebuilt from its basement, as disputes over reparations and donations marked the centennial.

Phillippo Baptist Church in Spanish Town, Jamaica’s oldest Baptist church, marked 200 years in 2019. Founded in 1818 and built by a missionary and enslaved workers, its Georgian chapel has survived major hurricanes and termite damage.