British Slave Owners’ Family Issue Public Apology and Reparations in Grenada

The APPG for Afrikan Reparations welcomes the apology from the Trevelyan family, an aristocratic British family, for their ownership of slaves and their commitment to reparations.

The Trevelyan family have publicly apologised to the people of the Caribbean island of Grenada, where their ancestors owned more than 1,000 slaves in the 19th Century. Laura Trevelyan, a New York-based BBC correspondent who investigated her family’s link to the slave trade, donated the money to the University of the West Indies (UWI).

“We urge the British government to enter into meaningful negotiations with the governments of the Caribbean in order to make appropriate reparations through Caricom, and bodies such as the Grenada National Reparations Commission,” John Dower, a Trevelyan member family, told the Guardian. Caricom, or Caribbean Community, is a group of 15 countries in the region.