Descendants of slave owners and those of enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat around the same table at the United Nations headquarters in New York last week to discuss the contentious issue of reparations.
“This was a historic event,” said former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan, one of whose ancestors owned sugar cane plantations in Grenada. Trevelyan moderated the meeting on the sidelines of the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent’s week-long session.
