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Sometimes English historical oversight is so egregious it must be calculated, we Irish suspect. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves, until we remember the truth is actually worse – we often don't signify to them at all.
The Trevelyan family recently apologised for their forebears’ slave-ownership and attracted a flurry of attention – both good and bad
A BBC reporter is giving £100,000 or more than $120,000 to a community in Grenada after learning that her slave-owning family was compensated when slavery
The Trevelyans were shocked to see their name in a slavery database and a journey to Grenada confirmed the continuing impact of their grim history
Originally posted at TomDispatch. Consider just one long-gone date in the world of give-peace-(not-war)-a-chance: January 27, 1973. On that day, the - Nan Levinson for Antiwar.com Original