A UK family who owned more than 1,000 slaves in Grenada during the 19th century will officially apologize to the locals of the Caribbean Island.
Additionally, the wealthy Trevelyan family, who controlled six sugar plantations in Grenada, would make restitution.
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In 2022, a relative who works for the BBC, Laura Trevelyan, traveled to Grenada.
She was astounded that whereas liberated African slaves received nothing from the UK government after slavery was outlawed in 1833, her ancestors had received compensation.
Ms. Trevelyan remembered her trip to the island for a documentary in a Saturday personal interview with the BBC.
“It was really horrific… I saw for myself the plantations where slaves were punished, when I saw the instruments of torture that were used to restrain them.”
“I felt ashamed, and I also felt that it was my duty. You can’t repair the past – but you can acknowledge the pain.”
A UK family who owned more than 1,000 slaves in Grenada during the 19th century will officially apologize to the locals of the Caribbean island.
Additionally, the wealthy Trevelyan family, who controlled six sugar plantations in Grenada, would make restitution.
In 2022, a relative who works for the BBC, Laura Trevelyan, traveled to Grenada.
She was astounded that whereas liberated African slaves received nothing from the UK government after slavery was outlawed in 1833, her ancestors had received compensation.
Ms. Trevelyan remembered her trip to the island for a documentary in a Saturday personal interview with the BBC.
The gift was praised by the Grenada National Reparations Commission.
After the US’s racial reckoning, Ms. Trevelyan, a BBC journalist presently based in New York, said she had intended to visit Grenada.
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement gained traction in the US and other nations after a spate of homicides of African Americans in recent years.
The BLM’s claimed main objectives are to stop racial violence against black people and other minorities, including cases of police brutality.
The movement increased public demand for reparations to remedy the historical injustice of slavery in various nations.
