Laura Trevelyan, a BBC correspondent who investigated her family’s link to the slave trade, also pays £100,000 in reparations

An aristocratic British family has travelled to the Caribbean country of Grenada to publicly apologise for its ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved Africans and promise £100,000 in reparations.

Laura Trevelyan, a New York-based BBC correspondent who investigated her family’s link to the slave trade, donated the money to the University of the West Indies (UWI).

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