Secrets Of Success: The Church That Served A Plantation Remains A Monument Of Resistance

Amid the site in rural Jamaica that once belonged to a Guardian financier may lie a treasure trove of artefacts that tell the story of Britains history of colonisation and enslavement Standing amid the ruins of Success, a former sugar plantation in Hanover, rural Jamaica, there is a muted silence, interrupted by the occasional rumble of a vehicle passing, overripe cocoa pods falling to the ground and green iguanas scuttling across dying leaves on the estate floor. Hidden from the lively community just outside its boundaries, the overgrown site today is a stark contrast to what would have existed there more than a century ago. One of more than across the island, , one of the 11 men who financed the launch of the Manchester Guardian in 1821. A brick likely to have been used in the construction of a building on the sprawling estate