Acknowledgement and repair: the Trevelyan family and Grenada
Channel: Island Ancestors
Date: 2023-02-12

There have been calls for reparation for generations, but what are reparations, why are they important and why is this happening in 2023?

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An aristocratic British family is to make history by travelling to the Caribbean and publicly apologising for enslaving more than 1,000 people on six plantations. The Trevelyan family, which has many notable ancestors, is also paying reparations to the people of Grenada.

In 1835, the Trevelyan family received £26,898, or £2.6 million (£2,603,247.94) adjusted for inflation, in compensation from the British government for their 'loss of property' after the brutal state-sanctioned system of forced labour and human trafficking was formally ended in 1834.

A £100,000 fund, donated by BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan, will be formally launched in Grenada on 27 February 2023 by Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the Caricom Reparations Commission, and Trevelyan family members.


🕰  Content
Intro 0:41
The Slave Compensation 01:08
UCL Legacies of British Slavery 02:30
Grenada 03:11
Rich Because They are Poor 03:49
The Eastern Caribbean Reparation Fund 04:40
What does Reparation mean? 05:50
Germany 06:19
Impact of the Trevelyan Reparation 07:37
Acknowledgement and Repair 09:17
Summary & Close 09:55

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Further reading
Island Ancestors Blog
The Trevelyan Reparation: time to acknowledge and repair.
https://islandancestors.wordpress.com/2023/02/17/the-trevelyan-reparation-time-to-acknowledge-and-repair

Sir John Trevelyan 4th Bart. of Nettlecombe (1735 - 1828)
Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146636918

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/04/british-slave-owners-family-apologise-reparations-trevelyans

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-64527709

https://www.ictj.org/reparations