An early childhood spent in a chattel house in Barbados followed by the shock of racism in the UK imbued Rosemarie Mallett with a sense of historical injustice and disadvantage that has shaped her life’s work.
Now in her mid-60s and bishop of Croydon, her life experiences are the backdrop to a determined push to get the Church of England to help repair the harm caused by the slave trade from which it benefited financially.