Former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan recently apologized and paid reparations to the Caribbean island of Grenada for her family's historic role in the slave trade.
"If we could try to propel a movement towards acknowledgment and repair for the damage of slavery, then that feels appropriate," Trevelyan tells PEOPLESimon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at PEOPLE covering the royals, human interest and celebrity.For 30 years, former BBC journalist and news anchor Laura Trevelyan traveled the world, reporting on some of the biggest stories of our time.
After Britain abolished the slave trade in 1807 , slave owners negotiated compensation for the loss of "property." In 1834, the Trevelyans received the equivalent of what would be $3.6 million today. Trevelyan made the program and in the summer of 2022, she and around 50 family members had what they called a Zoom town hall meeting with Sir Hilary Beckles, who's the vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies and chair of the Caribbean region's reparation organization.
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