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Plantations, i felt ashamed. the trevelyan family has decided to apologise in a public letter. they write... they go on... five—times great grandfather... ms trevelyan explained the impact her family�*s actions still have today. poverty is rife. there�*s a lot of obesity, of hypertension, of ill health, which is linked to slavery, health experts feel, because of decades of poor diet, of stress.
The trevelyans owned six sugar plantations on the caribbean island during the nineteenth century. the family includes the bbc correspondent, laura trevelyan — who says they are paying reparations by donating 100,000 pounds to a fund on the island. celestina olulode reports a painful past with a legacy that lingers. a reality bbc presenter laura trevelyan was confronted with after learning her family was listed on a database of slave owners. when i went to grenada and i saw for myself the plantations, where slaves were punished, when i saw the instruments of torture that were used to restrain...
How do you make up for centuries of oppression? that is a question countries like britain and the united states are still trying to answer. bbc presenter laura trevelyan is confronting her ancestors' own role in the slave trade. across the caribbean, there are calls for reparations. after she learned her family was listed on a database of slave owners, ms trevelyan visited grenada to face her ancestors' painful legacy. when i went to grenada and i saw for myself the plantations where slaves were punished, when i saw the instruments of torture that were used to restrain them, when i looked at t...
Like britain and the united states are still trying to answer. bbc presenter laura trevelyan is confronting her ancestors' own role in the slave trade. across the caribbean, there are calls for reparations. after she learned her family was listed on a database of slave owners, ms trevelyan visited grenada to face her ancestors' painful legacy. when i went to grenada and i saw for myself the plantations where slaves were punished, when i saw the instruments of torture that were used to restrain them, when i looked at the neck braces, at the manacles, at this system of dehumanisation that my fam...
How do you make up for centuries of oppression? that is a question countries like britain and the united states are still trying to answer. bbc presenter laura trevelyan is confronting her ancestors' own role in the slave trade. across the caribbean, there are calls for reparations. after she learned her family was listed on a database of slave owners, ms trevelyan visited grenada to face her ancestors' painful legacy. when i went to grenada and i saw for myself the plantations where slaves were punished, when i saw the instruments of torture that were used to restrain them, when i looked at t...