In the College Land neighborhood of St John, Barbados, decades of unresolved historical injustice have erupted into public calls for urgent change, as local residents and tenant descendants push for a seat at the table shaping an $18 million initiative meant to redress the wrongs of the island’s colonial plantation era. The Codrington Estate, once a sprawling sugar operation worked by thousands of enslaved African people, is at the center of a growing national conversation about reparative justice, pitting long-simmering community demands against the incremental 15-year framework laid out by the project’s steward, the Codrington Trust.