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Charge Delivered in St. Michael's Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados, by the Right Rev. John Mitchinson, D. C. L., D. D., Bishop of Barbados and the Windward Islands, Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral
Excerpt from Charge Delivered in St. Michael's Cathedral, Bridgetown, Barbados, by the Right Rev. John Mitchinson, D. C. L., D. D., Bishop of Barbados and the Windward Islands, Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, Honorary Canon of Canterbury Cathedral: At His Second Visitation of His Diocese, on the Festival of St. John the Evangelist, 1878, Being the Sixth Year of His ConsecrationFive years exceeds the interval canonically fixed for episcopal visitations. It could not well, however, in this instance have been otherwise; for one of those years, 1876, has by tacit consent in Barbados been suffered to drop out of the calendar of Church-work, while for six months of 1878 I have myself been abse...
Cross and Crown in Barbados
During the late 19th century, Caribbean society was generally controlled by the local plantocracy and the colonial administration of the Europeans. Barbados was so much the pride of the British colonies in the Caribbean that it was called Little England. The life-blood of the society, the Black labouring classes, reaped very little of the social and economic benefits from the Sugar industry which the White planter-class owned and controlled. The Church was also controlled by the planter-class, and it functioned effectively to sustain a pattern of rigid social containment, and to work consistently for the maintenance of the status quo. Political religion in Barbados was therefore an engine of social control of the poor Blacks by the rich Whites. Cross and Crown together created peace and poverty.
