• A UK family who owned more than 1,000 slaves on the Caribbean island of Grenada during the 19th century.
• Reparations will also be paid by the aristocratic Trevelyan family.
• When slavery was outlawed in the UK in 1833, her ancestors received compensation, while liberated African slaves received nothing.

A UK family who owned more than 1,000 slaves on the Caribbean island of Grenada during the 19th century will officially apologize to the locals there.

Reparations will also be paid by the aristocratic Trevelyan family, who held six sugar plantations in Grenada. In 2022, a relative and reporter named Laura Trevelyan travelled to Grenada.

When slavery was outlawed in the UK in 1833, her ancestors received compensation, while liberated African slaves received nothing.

Ms. Trevelyan recounted her trip to the island for a documentary when speaking to the media on Saturday.

“It was really horrific… I saw for myself the plantations where slaves were punished, when I saw the instruments of torture that were used to restrain them.”

“I felt ashamed, and I also felt that it was my duty. You can’t repair the past – but you can acknowledge the pain.”

Ms. Trevelyan announced that seven family members would visit Grenada later in February to make an official apology.

To start a community fund for economic development on the underdeveloped island and in the eastern Caribbean, the family will donate £100,000 ($120,000).

According to Ms. Trevelyan, the Trevelyans were compensated in 1834 with about £34,000 for the loss of their “property” on Grenada, or almost £3 million in modern currency.

“For me to be giving £100,000 almost 200 years later… maybe that seems like really inadequate,” she said.

But I’d like to think that by expressing regret for what our forebears did, we’re setting an example. The gift was praised by the Grenada National Reparations Commission.

After the US’s racial reckoning, Ms. Trevelyan, a BBC correspondent currently based in New York, said she had intended to visit Grenada.

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement gained traction in the US and other nations after a spate of homicides of African Americans in recent years.

The BLM’s claimed main objectives are to stop racial violence against black people and other minorities, including cases of police brutality.

The movement increased public demand for reparations to remedy the historical injustice of slavery in various nations.

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