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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Aamna Mohdin

Laura Trevelyan quits BBC to campaign for reparative justice for Caribbean

Laura Trevelyan, pictured in 2013
Laura Trevelyan, pictured in 2013, said she hoped to work with other families with ancestors who owned slaves in the Caribbean and want to make amends with reparations. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images

A BBC journalist whose family made history for publicly apologising for its ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved African people and paying reparation has quit the broadcaster to campaign for reparative justice full-time.

Laura Trevelyan and her family travelled to the Caribbean country of Grenada last month to publicly apologise for their family’s role in slavery and announced £100,000 in reparations.

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