British slave owners’ family makes public apology in Grenada

Speaking in a ceremony in St George's, Trevelyan said the apology was a first step in the process of reparatory justice. Photograph: Robert Harrison/Alamy

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).