Wealthy British family to pay reparations to Grenada for links to slavery

[Judi Lynn]

Seven members of the Trevelyan family will travel to the Caribbean country later this month to issue a public apology



HORROR: Shackles used to tether enslaved Africans on display at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. (Pic: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

A WEALTHY British family will apologise to the people of Grenada for their family’s past role in slavery on the Caribbean island.

The aristocratic Trevelyan family said they would publicly apologise and also pay reparations.
The family owned six sugar plantations and owned more than 1,000 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean country.

Laura Trevelyan, who is a BBC reporter and family member, visited Grenada in 2022 – to make a documentary.

She discovered her ancestors were compensated when slavery was abolished and also learned that the freed enslaved Africans received nothing.

More:
https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-news/2023/02/07/wealthy-british-family-to-pay-reparations-to-grenada-for-links-to-slavery/

(My bolding)

[mactire]

1. The Fields of Athenry

Well Laura Trevelyan, that’s a step in the right direction acknowledging your family’s role in cruelty to other human beings that were deemed”inferior” to your likes! Lord Charles T., the brit assistant secretary at the time of “The Great Hunger “ in Ireland, referred to as the potato famine, or more succinctly as “Gentleman’s Genocide” ( there was plenty of food denied to the native population while the blight on the sustaining food source , the potato, and Mother Nature could take it’s course in eliminating an “inferior”race). His prejudice, hostility, and disdain of the Irish ( and Scottish during the land clearances) made it easy for the brit ruling class in accepting the starvation and emigration of the undesirable natives. Here’s a quote by sir Charles, “ The greatest evil we have to face is not the physical evil of the famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse, and turbulent character of the people.” This is “governing”, when acknowledging mass death as a necessity when carrying out colonial policies. Any monetary amount of retribution for your family guilt doesn’t change its culpability or shame for Black 47 . ... or the role in enslaving human beings for profit.