British slave owners’ family makes public apology in Grenada

Laura Trevelyan, a BBC correspondent who investigated her family’s link to the slave trade, also pays £100,000 in reparations

An aristocratic British family has travelled to the Caribbean country of Grenada to publicly apologised for its ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved Africans and promise £100,000 in reparations.

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).