BBCNEWS Grenada June 4, 2024 16:38:00
So a one—year—old? a one—year—old. yeah. this is the beausejour estate, high in the hills of grenada, once a sugar cane plantation jointly owned by the trevelyans. the production of sugar cane fuelled the transatlantic slave trade. and it's here that slaves, owned by my family, worked long hours harvesting the crop. this is the location where the slave master would come out and look over the slave plantation, the sugar plantation. at beausejour, i met the second of my guides, the historical novelist dc campbell, who grew up on grenada. dc explained what life was like for the slaves shi...