Confronting my family’s slave-owning past in Grenada - BBC News

In 1834, after Britain abolished slavery, the government decided to compensate 46,000 slave owners for the loss of their "property".
The Trevelyans were among them, recieving a payout of about £34,000 - the equivalent of about £3m in today's money - for the "loss" of some 1,000 slaves.
Nearly 200 years later, BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan travelled to Grenada in the Caribbean to uncover her family's grim legacy, and learn more about what the ongoing discussions of reparations mean for the island.
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[@cagelsthrough]

As a Trinidadian, I can say that many of us descend from the slaves of Grenada so we share the history on a personal level

[@maxwellhurlock6285]

What, how and why are Trinidadians descended from Grenadian slaves?

[@cagelsthrough]

@@maxwellhurlock6285 A Lot o Grenadians emigrated to Trinidad after emancipation until now. My father was a first generation Trinidadian and he said there used to be lots of Grenadians in Trinidad

[@92spice18]

@@cagelsthrough this is very true. All of my grandmothers siblings immigrated to Trinidad and started their families there. My grandmother was the only one who stayed in Grenada. There is an inside joke amongst Grenadians that says: “they are Trini to the bone, but Grenadian to the marrow.”

[@Caribbean_Doll500]

thats true many of our immediate grandparents or great-grandparents are from Grenada

[@indamix8221]

As a grenadian I am highly upset that she can check her ancestors easily and see how many slaves they owned but poor me can't even find my family tree or where it sprang from😡🤬

[@xozzii]

Same here as a Grenadian

[@Kizzyi]

Fr

[@matthewhale2464]

You need to check with the Africans, that enslaved your ancestors, and sold you to the Europeans.

[@WaveRider1989]

Thats because nobody cared to keep family records. I'm from India and we have family records at least laye 1700. We have an extended family gathering every 5 years from anyone we know that is part of that ancestry line.

[@countycricklewood]

Is there no depths of inhumanity this woman’s ancestors and Baronet Trevelyan stooped too? He set in motion the genocide of Ireland starving them to death or transport.

[@christophern7363]

Compared to sizeable elements of the American political establishment, at least Laura is not denying her family’s past and calling the information that has come to light “WOKE”. There is so much reckoning and healing to be done and reports like this move the dial forward. Still much to be done and there are no words for the horrors and injustices committed. I believe that what Laura has done took courage.

[@rosemariegaspingforbreatht1407]

Compensation is necessary, especially since the United Kingdom finished paying off debts to slave-owning families in 2015.

[@HA-kw7vq]

The ironic part is that black tax payers paid towards this

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

There is much that wealthy descendants of slave owners could do to address the wrongs of their past. They could sponsor young people to study courses at UK Universities that would benefit the Island. They could also help with infrastructure.

[@hyper7354]

They have absolutely no responsibility to help in any way shape or form. This happened generations ago, by the way this coming from someone whose great grandparents found and died for the independence of my country from Britain and whose country suffered immeasurable damage and harm from colonialism. Still, those people in the video did not suffer slavery and the other group did not own or partake in slavery

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

@@hyper7354 Agreed! They have NO responsibility to do anything... but if the wealthy beneficiaries of slavery wish to participate in benevolent acts, they can do much. This would be more relevant to corporations such as Tate & Lyle.

[@nopotts]

Everyone's ancestors had slaves at one point. Is it fair that one people are given reprubution and others not, that's racist

[@michaelsamuel9917]

It would be a splendid gesture if UK Universities built with the profits of the slave trade were to open campuses in the West Indies etc and collaborate with students and local govts in many different fields, I'm sure those students in the news report would love to study in a UK school.

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

The government should be responsible for that. It’s ridiculous to punish people today for what their ancestors did in 1800. It’s like finding out your great great great great great grandfather murdered someone in 1800 so you get life in prison or the death penalty. Just because an ancestor got compensation when slavery ended does it mean it’s still in the family. So wealthy people whose ancestors owned slaves should pay up? And people who are not wealthy should take out bank loans or what?

[@cann0708]

I feel like all this attention should be put towards people who are slaves not people who's ancestors were

[@cann0708]

@Jay Dee except this time it'd actually matter because it'd be people who are actually facing slavery

[@akhashdhillon2159]

Imagine if we gave this much attention to people who are slaves today. We might actually make a difference

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

Yes I find it strange when someone is so upset about their great, great, great, great, great grandparents forced Inyo slavery yet do nothing to help those enslaved today. They call it human trafficking but it’s slavery. But, they don’t care about them.

[@bl00dhoney]

@@amazingsupergirl7125 who is they?

[@michaelpcoffee]

@@amazingsupergirl7125 Some 'human trafficking' is just unauthorized voluntary transportation.

[@MEGIDIOT]

Why not both? Stop deflecting

[@akhashdhillon2159]

@@MEGIDIOT because fixating on the past never does any good for anyone

[@RoccosVideos]

No one alive today was a slave. It’s important to remember history but if you still feel like a victim today from something that happened to people 200 years ago you need to seek help.

[@StratsRUs]

And you are you.

[@hmmmmm2634]

And if you are still colonising people today as you did 200 years ago through wars and financial strangleholds then you should pay dearly

[@lilpeanutish]

Modern day slavery is an actual thing tho? "No one alive today was a slave." couldn't be any further from actual facts.

[@vrclckd-zz3pv]

I used to think that way but if you listen to why they want reparations it does make sense. By taking slaves we made their entire lineage worse off. They can (and have) built themselves back but they're worse off than they would have been had their parents been able to pass on to them the wealth that their parents passed on to them. I'm not a particularly rich person but my parents were able to feed me and educate me. My parents were only able to do that because their parents did the same. When you take someone as a slave you break that chain and force someone to start from square one. The point of reparations is to help the people who lost out get back to where they should be faster.

[@stuckinthepattayabubble9319]

We are all slaves to big tech... . government and our mobile phones.

[@redpandagency]

It’s impossible to pay compensation when people has been abuse for more than 300 years.

[@robbowman8770]

How noble of Ms Trevelyan to feel Grenada's pain, before returning home in business class to her wealthy English life

[@onlyme219]

It's not herr fault just like Jesus getting crucified, not my fault I wasn't even born at the time. Nothing to do with me. I'm British are the Vikings going to give back what they stole? This argument could go on forever. We should not have to pay for what our late ancestors did, for example, not all Germans now are Natzi, it's not their fault what happened before they were born. Grow up, Rob

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

That's a nasty comment whereby you know that the presenter is not at fault for the actions of her ancestry. Do you not think that Grenadians, and other Carribbean people, travel business class as well?

[@robbowman8770]

@@onlyme219 Your points are valid, but relate to things I specifically did not say. Try to improve your comprehension skills

[@alvaro701]

@@onlyme219 lol he is not talking about what you think he is talking

[@onlyme219]

@@robbowman8770 Please explain and elaborate on how my comprehensive skills are lacking in my reply?

[@maxwellhurlock6285]

Damn, she's got some balls coming all the way from England to Grenada where her ancestors owned chattel slaves centuries ago and interacting with people who may in some cases be descended from enslaved people her family once owned!

[@stephengrimmer35]

She's a posh BBC lurvie, using licence payers money to further her SJW feel-good agenda.

[@kencur9690]

Right, let me understand how this works: first you make millions upon millions exploiting someone, and get all the benefits and perks, estates and what not. Then, centuries later, you decide that the guilt is really marring your lifestyle so you exploit the loophole by “apologizing” and paying a tiny sum and you get to keep all the wealth and riches guilt free. You also get the praise for apologizing. Profit! I want a part of this, sounds like a really great investment plan.

[@hch5498]

Couldn’t have put it better

[@jintsfan]

Her Reparations Bill = £100,000 ?!? That’s all ? 😂😂 Unbelievable.

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

​@@jintsfanIt should've been 10p. 😂😂

[@holeindanssock156]

Go to Egypt and ask them all how owning slaves felt.....

[@guynimmo8717]

I found this woman's self flagellation difficult to watch. How many times in 12 mins did she repeat, 'My family owned slaves?' As for the sugar press, I live in the Caribbean and cane juice is still made that way. The operators take care to let go of the cane stalks before their hands get close to the drum. Cringe making woke nonsense from the BBC.

[@freeopinion2140]

Ikr it's like she's proud of her history. 😂

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

As a slave, or even in the UK before unions were formed, the wealthy and industrial classes did not consider safety at work, rest periods for the tired, lighting etc. Of course there were accidents, especially when flogged if the rate of production slowed!

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

@@freeopinion2140 She's acknowledging her history and the tangible part she can see.

[@ImmaculateRecovery]

The way this lady approached this was applaudable, it was very matter of fact. We need to come to terms with the past, accept it, learn from it and not sweep it under the carpet. Reparations could come in the form of overseas charity work/scholarships.

[@TheTrueOnyxRose]

Well the Trevelyan name already has a nasty reputation in connection with the Irish and the Great Famine. I’m surprised it was even worse further afield. What else did they do? But you know, once empires gain wealth, no matter how ill-gotten, they’re not so quick to give it up again. If anything, they’re the ones to play victim and demand more of it. (Haiti with France, for example.)

[@tigertiger1699]

Interesting that she continues to say owned slaves… not the same as my family enslaved humans. Language is decisive

[@Totaltwist]

Her grammar is correct. Her family did own slaves. By the time they landed on the island they were already enslaved. By her family? Unsure. The people who enslaved them were the ones who raptured them away from their freedom. This could have been a neighbouring tribe at war with them, captured and sold on to slave traders or outright being captured by slave traders on raided shores.

[@bl00dhoney]

@@Totaltwist how do you think a person is made into a slave? what do you think is necessary to force people to work? torture? r*pe? brutality? how do you think those people were clothed or fed? how did they form families ? and how do you prevent those people, who are the majority of humans on the island, for rebelling and kill you, the person who is holding them captive? MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE ENSLAVED BY HER FAMILY - there HUMANITY WAS CONVERTED INTO WEALTH that is still benefiting this woman today. It is not a neutral relationship of property. There was action and agency necessary to make people into commodities.

[@Totaltwist]

@@bl00dhoney Honey, I am just talking about grammar here and I think I already made the point how they could have been enslaved. Now being kept enslaved would have involved oppressive tactics to demoralise and force compliance. But that is a different topic.

[@bl00dhoney]

@@Totaltwist how is it a different topic? 'Capture' the verb your looking for. Captive is the noun. The process of turning a person into a slave, and keeping them in that state/status, is not restricted to the process of capture. Hence why the verb "to enslave" is preferred over "to owe" - which centers the perspective of the enslaver and their unjust property rights over other humans

[@Totaltwist]

@@bl00dhoney Please reread my first comment. I did lay it out. And FYI enslave /ɪnˈsleɪv,ɛnˈsleɪv/ verb past tense: enslaved; past participle: enslaved make (someone) a slave. "the practice of enslaving prisoners of war eventually died out" Similar: Sell into slavery cause (someone) to lose their freedom of choice or action. "they were enslaved by their need to take drugs"

[@jimcourt9164]

If you think slavery of 250 years ago affects you today , you need a psychiatrist not compo

[@zainzoala1083]

Hmm I would say maybe , if you think. It is still oke today , to own other continents countries land resources. But I am sure , you don't have their shoes on and think it is perfectly oke to only pay towards wars interventions as you still do.

[@michaelsamuel9917]

I've had ppl from different backgrounds who seem to love mentioning "you're a slave" etc talk non stop, while we try to forget some ppl LOVE to remind us of our past, if you don't believe me just ask any random black person. After arriving in Canada in 1988 one of my white co-workers said to me in public on a bus full of white ppl in a very loud tone "I'd love to put you on a plantation to work" ! I was in complete shock at his words later I found out he was Irish which made sense since most Plantations/Sugar estates in the West Indies were run by Irish ppl, (this is why Jamaicans speak with an Irish tilt) their service to the English lords or upper class in running those places paid off handsomely many of them now own large businesses in Jamaica and Barbados Trinidad etc.

[@alvaro701]

You're so entitled that you know shit.

[@ha-nocri9923]

Wish ppl would talk about other ppl being enslaved. For example Slavic ppl, the word Slav means slave. But they don't care, it's only black ppl in America that interest them because they have agenda to push

[@hmmmmm2634]

O shut up

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

Slav doesn't mean slave.... it means word, because the Slavs all spoke the same language before.

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

Anyway when other people were enslaved they could always be absorbed into the population and integrates in society. With Black people they were forever doomed to be marginalised by the Whites.

[@ha-nocri9923]

@@eowawrzkiewicz The term slave has its origins in the word slav. The slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD.

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

@@ha-nocri9923 no you are wrong

[@Clunker54]

yet it didn't show her to apologies to any of them.

[@Mark-kh1ny]

Never apologise for something *you* haven’t done. I’m no more responsible for what people in my family tree have done, before I was even conceived, than you are.

[@ghostagee5232]

You are responsible of your conscience unless you have none. If your family inherited £30 million because they lost "chattel", you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand how much your family got from that. For generations. And the incredible injustice and excruciating insult it was for freed slaves. Their humiliation of watching their former owners strive, whilst they carry on working for peanuts, this time as "apprentices". The same land their ancestors plowed and worked still crushing them whilst their captors shoot up the wealth ladder.

[@Mark-kh1ny]

@@ghostagee5232 literally doesn’t change my point, somebody else did that, not them. Don’t apologise for something you haven’t done.

[@Mark-kh1ny]

@@ghostagee5232 now if you think that they should give some of the money back that they’ve inherited though previous dubious practices, that’s a different story. But they’re still no more responsible for what their ancestors did than you or I are.

[@raybod1775]

How delusional to “confront the past” since there is no way to go into the past and live someone else’s life from long ago, no one has a time machine.

[@anthonycoote9546]

What ignorance

[@iloveyougumi]

God does Joel 3

[@davidsmart8594]

So, BBC...when are you doing your reportage on white people who have had their ancestry researched and can say: "Yes, my ancestor was an Able Seaman in the Royal Navy, at the time. He died, far from home, during the capture / seizure of a slave ship; a Portugese ship. OR: "Yes...the Barbary Coast (N.Africa)...it was called that because it was a mispronunciation of "Berber", the tribe that lived there...raiding ships in the Mediterranean...raiding the Italian and Croatian / Montenegro / Albania coastline...for slaves. The word 'slave' originates in the name of the first (white) slaves...'Slavs'...did you know that?" But we won't see a reportage like that from you, BBC, will we? No; you've got an agenda to push... I'll take a line from the video and hand it back to you... "This is making me feel physically sick...it's like a system of profit, built [off]* torture..." Much like your profiting from the extortion of the British Public...eh? *Did I just hear a highly-paid, supposedly well-educated person from the BBC use such 'grammar'? Embarrassing...

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

I, too, would like the BBC to make different documentaries concerning the slave trade. I'd like more information on why some African tribes sold their own to slave traders. I would like more information about the indigenous peoples of the Carribbean such as the Arawaks and Caribs; they were killed or committed suicide but you can still see stone markings in Grenada. Additionally, like you stated, more information about the British navy patrolling the seas to enforce the end of slave trading. Also, documentaries regarding the first 50 years of the end of the slave trade. Perhaps an account of the white people in the Carribbean; were all slave owners or overseers? What about the Indians (I believe probably from the regions now called Bangladesh) predominantly in Grenada, Trinidad and Jamaica and a few other islands or the Chinese?

[@wolfiestreet6899]

HEAR HEAR!!

[@enosger]

@@fabiennemitchell2371 those docs are easy to find on KZbin if you cared to watch them but you don’t care, you like others get a migraine over stuff that doesn’t concern you, only a small handful of white British made an obscene amount of money from enslaving Africans, your missing the point, it’s not the fact they Africans and for your information my grandmothers mother was born a slave so it ain’t to far back in history for me, your anger seems more about race than the treatment of other humans, do you know if poor white brits were able to do the work African Slavs did you to would deserve reparations because your ancestors would have been slaves, oh hang on, that’s Australia.

[@tigertiger1699]

😂😂 The disconnect still exists…. Why else would she ask such disconnected question

[@hourbee5535]

It's okay to be British!

[@kj9946]

But she is Jewish

[@harryboi8485]

My ancestor was a slave trader. I feel zero remorse. I am not my ancestor. By all means, return what you can if you have it but reparations as a whole doesn’t make sense to me. Where do we draw the line? Should the Brits ask for reparations from Italians/ Romans???

[@hmmmmm2634]

Same way I feel zero remorse about 9/11 blah blah yawn yawn

[@caleb2485]

@@hmmmmm2634 Lol you’re mad

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

No, just give yourself up for slavery. Say goodbye to your name, your family, your language and freedom over your body. Maybe when you do that you will feel remorse.

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

@Pale Rider the English didn't exist in the roman empire. They are an amalgam of many ethnicities. If any ethnic English exist today they are probably discriminated as northerners. Also those people were not black, so when they were freed they could mix into society freely

[@jameswhiteley6843]

Fantastic that Britain was one of the first countries in the world to abolish slavery. I love being British. 😀

[@hmmmmm2634]

Pathetic Brit

[@Martial-Mat]

Britain also had an empire spanning 75% of the world, slaughtering, stealing, and persecuting. And now some fat buffoon with a naughty schoolboy haircut is ruining the country.

[@Doe7251]

F### your Britain now they f###ing your white women

[@FEROH10]

PSYCHOPATHS!!!!!

[@michaelsamuel9917]

The only reason they did that was to prevent a Haitian style revolution in Jamaica and other English controlled Islands, it wasn't always because of anti slavery "activists" or altruism it was about total fear of LOSING everything in flames & chaos so the safer option was just stopping the brutality before it engulfed them all.

[@stephengrimmer35]

You might want to apologise to Ireland too Laura, as your ancestor in charge of famine "relief" pointed opined: It was "the judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson". A bit like putting Tommy Robinson in charge of the Refugee Council.

[@Chingy3ade]

And don't forget the Sultan of Turkey who sent aid to the Irish undercover in order not to upset the Royal family and the English.

[@stronkserbia444]

@@Chingy3ade wonder which ottoman occupied country he stole the food from

[@Logic-Is-Uncommon]

As a Grenadian, I believe we should become a republic and consciously seek investments that result in Grenadian ownership; a better quality of life, and opportunities for ordinary citizens, not just a small minority and foreigners. Side note: I can't lie, Laura looked quite proud that her family owned slaves, she found it difficult to contain certain facial expressions. "Confronting my family's slave-owning past" yeah right. More like reveling in your family's slave-owning past. Disgusting.

[@fabiennemitchell2371]

Laura is putting fact to her family history; an ironic look.

[@MrSoda007]

Think of all the poor souls living as slaves across the world today

[@Ruribitz]

"By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling: "Michael, they have taken you away, for you stole Trevelyan's corn, so the young might see the morn, now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay".

[@anthonycoote9546]

The audacity, with her smiles, to rub it in under the guise of investigative journalism

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

I felt that way too. She’s awful cheerful for such a somber situation. I think I’d be bawling my eyes out standing in front of that classroom of children.

[@DivaSosa]

She’s not even remorseful, she seems proud

[@DivaSosa]

The kids look disturbed and sad… smh

[@bl00dhoney]

she's saying all this WITH RELISH - her language is so insensitive and frankly cruel

[@orangewarm1]

She's not rubbing it in. She's highlighting an historical injustice.

[@dazza4345]

Fair play to Laura also for acknowledgement of her ancestor's role in the genocide of one million Irish people.

[@jasondevon481]

Congratulations to Great Britain for being among the first countries in human history to abolish slavery. Then our navy went around freeing slaves everywhere and even blockaded West Africa at one point. The king of Benin was intimidated into stopping his people's slave raids into neighbouring Nigeria by the British too. We are the good guys.

[@alvaro701]

Good joke

[@baseplate7566]

What? did yall british forgot what yall did to indians espiecially the bengal famine that killed millions and here you are saying you guys are the good guys?

[@brendywatson]

Hahahaha yeah congratulations great britian!

[@thedude2916]

@@baseplate7566 without the British you would still be burning your women alive.

[@Pedant_Patrol]

If you're the good guys for abolishing slavery when you did, are you also the bad guys for having had slaves to begin with?

[@jacksugden8190]

There was no case to answer Laura, please come back the BBC and present World News America, as miss you dearly.

[@eddierosa250]

Grenadians could care less for apologies. Give them the MONETARY REPARATIONS!

[@kj9946]

Agree. The Jews has a lot of money. They made a lot on slave trade also

[@youtubecensorsyouropinions6638]

So many dislikes REMOVED compared to when I looked this video briefly earlier (currently 25 down, when it was 37 an hour ago).

[@kylesmith4572]

If I had to guess, they are being removed because they are bots. There are ways to determine that fairly effectively.

[@gareth449]

And what nobody talks about is who sold these slaves to the slave owners , They were sold by black African tribes , in trading posts along the coast and rivers , This is the real legacy of slavery . maybe the black tribes in Africa should pay compensation first , because none of the normal British people owned slaves . and any compensation would probably come from the British taxpayer ,

[@vrclckd-zz3pv]

I somewhat agree with you but I think the whole thing about black people selling other black people doesn't make sense. Yes that happened but if someone got caught trying to buy a child it wouldn't be a legitimate defense to say "but look who was selling me the child! It was the parents. You should let me go and punish them!" You'd punish both the person trying to buy the child as well as the parents who were selling it. We don't have the authority to punish people in another country but we can force the people who are still benefiting from it in our country to pay their dues. They didn't personally take part but they got money through inheritance and I'll gotten gains are still ill gotten gains even if the crime happened hundreds of years ago. It should be the people who actually have that money that pay it back though, not the tax payer.

[@CapAnson12345]

Everyone alive has slavery AND slave owning in their past. Much of it far more extensive and brutal than what you might think. But for some reason we give super special treatment to slavery in the Americas from 1776-1865.

[@YTChiefCritic]

My ancestors owned slaves in the West Indies and we can neither conceive of nor afford to pay reparations. What's done is done.

[@AlejandroLV]

Glad you showed this to the world BBC, the brutality and inhumanity of slavery should be shown and people should learn. And as much as I admire the UK of course you british people should compensate these caribbean nations whose people you and your ancestors enslaved.

[@coolcat6103]

Yawn

[@enosger]

@Pale Rider no one said you did but those of inherited money did they should give back, you would want that for your people.

[@ericastones1052]

Should the descendances of Vikings who enslaved monks and citizens from England be bought forward as well. Oh, don't forget the romans that did the same thing. Yes, they mistreated their slaves as well. Guess we are not focusing on all slavery are we. OK, guess we are.

[@ericastones1052]

@Marek Cracovia all forms of slavery is bad it doesn’t matter we will enslave our own kind and Romans were the first to start it. They were enslaving their poor people first before going overseas to enslave people from other countries. So, the human race is the worse to itself.

[@EvilAndy-os6bz]

Get over it. Tired of this BS. Reparations? Get a job like normal people. Free tickets back to The motherland maybe?

[@MrJoysiq]

Watch your mouth white boy

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

They had a job, they built everything you have. They just didn't get paid. Pay up!

[@EvilAndy-os6bz]

@@eowawrzkiewicz yawn. They didn’t build everything I have. Get over it. Go tend your goats. Punk

[@EvilAndy-os6bz]

@@eowawrzkiewicz I’ll pay the worthless mongrels with lead.

[@williamwilson4162]

Descendants of slave owners should pay the reparations not the taxpayer again.

[@MatthewWhalley]

#DefundTheBBC

[@xolanimiel616]

Yes pay pay pay to compensate the torture the horror PAY!!! And apolagize!!!✊🏿

[@karmabutterfly7985]

So you asked if your family should pay then did nothing? So you exploited every person in this piece that your getting paid for and you’ve done nothing?! Not a surprise, you’re just like your ancestors. They would be proud of you.

[@amazingsupergirl7125]

I wish we’d focus on current day slavery. They like to call it human trafficking but it’s slavery.

[@Darthdog4957]

She most be a major racist as most of slaves ancestors would be insulted by these actions. Non slave getting money for being slaves when they weren’t how’s that fair

[@bloodcake1337]

its all fun and games unti she actually has to hand over the money, then she'll disapear, the sad truth is: people with money can hide money by getting more money ...

[@craigroberts5965]

I'm not sure you can hold her personally responsible for the actions of her ancestors.

[@bloodcake1337]

@@craigroberts5965 she still has the stolen money, im not saying she murdered with them im saying if you decide to go there and talk about it, then bring your own money

[@craigroberts5965]

@@bloodcake1337 the money isn't stolen. And it wasn't paid to her.

[@bloodcake1337]

@@craigroberts5965 money which was made using slaves is stolen, therefore afterwards the money they received was also stolen ... they literally received money for being rich enough to own slaves ... wtf are you talking about its not their money

[@craigroberts5965]

@@bloodcake1337 Slavery was legal at the time. And the money was paid by the British government to her ancestors. It was obviously reprehensible. But it wasn't stolen money. And it wasn't her.

[@christine2429]

Oh stop it! 1863 for Christ's sakes! I want compensation for the shit childhood I had...no education, going hungry, living in squalid conditions. This nonsense has got to stop. Slavery goes back to the year dot...the world has been built on it...its still going on. This compensation lark has got to stop.

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

Yes but most slaves could be absorbed into their population. For the Blacks that wasn't the case. They were condemned to be marginalised because they were black and forever identified as descendents of slaves. They were denied the opportunities to aquire wealth and status for themselves. They actually worked towards it when they were freed, but the ex slave owners didn't like it so they denied them access and continued to steal from them. When they get paid for all the work they did, when they get ensured access to top quality education from birth, when they get the access to live in all neighbourhoods without ever having their place questioned then we can move on.

[@lawrenceanthony8468]

They just won't let it go will they? For the love of God move on !!

[@brentjamescollins9731]

I am a 'white' english person and friends with descendants of ancestors involved in the transatlantic slave trade, and I completely disagree with your comment Mr. Anthony! I have become very much aware during the course of that friendship of ongoing adverse personal and national consequences concerning their situation! I suggest you do some obviously much needed research on the subject! Your previously espoused degree from Exeter University and involvement with the United Nations obviously do not help you with this subject! More importantly, more care for and about the situation of your fellow man would not go amiss with comments like these, considering most importantly that all of us that have been or will in the future be given human life could equally have been given that life in the other person's place! That you obviously don't care very much for your fellow man with comments like these I personally find deplorable, and you have offended many other people including myself with your previous comments concerning the Ukraine situation, which some other KZbin users reporting you to KZbin for infringement of their policies! I personally did think of contacting Exeter University and telling them how and why you were undermining the status of their degrees if it is actually the case that you do have such claimed degree as you have previously stated issued by them! Brent Collins.

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

Then pay them for their work, give them free top quality education. Abolish rent for them. Fair is fair

[@titteryenot4524]

‘In 1834, after Britain abolished slavery, the government decided to compensate 46,000 slave owners for the loss of their property.’ This is a bit like ‘compensating’ an inveterate thief for his robbing, by letting him keep his ill-gotten gains, when those gains should have been recovered and given back to those who were robbed. So, instead of compensating the slave owners, the 800,000 slaves should have been compensated.

[@jameswhiteley6843]

And it was the British taxpayer who had to foot the bill.

[@titteryenot4524]

@@jameswhiteley6843 That’s irrelevant. If the British state was culpable, then it should have directly paid those slaves on freedom; not the slave owners.

[@jimthompson9370]

@@titteryenot4524 - so are they also asking for reparations from those that sold them in the first place?

[@titteryenot4524]

@@jimthompson9370 My point was that the slaves should have been compensated; not the slave owners. I’m not for compensation centuries after the event, but for the people culpable living at that time, then they should have coughed up compensation there and then, on slave release.

[@jimthompson9370]

@@titteryenot4524 - a not unreasonable position, but paid by whom? It cost the U.K. so much we were indebted until recently!!! Maybe those that sold them? Asking the Arabs, Central and North Africans, Portuguese at that time might prove unproductive even before any calculations were attempted.

[@G94-u4c]

in 2006 Laura wrote about her ancestors saying how wonderful and liberal they are, I wonder what changed? Job on the hanger so needed a new gig?

[@bl00dhoney]

the language of this woman is really grating on my nerves. She seems to relish saying "my family owns slaves" "I order you to speak to me Mr Hankey" makes me sick

[@MrBrutal33]

People standing in line to get a handout for something that happened to their ancestors is obscene. If you want recompense, start with Africa. There is no way that the slave trade would have flourished without the connivance of Africans who established slavery as a way of life long before the first European set foot on the continent. The Muslim states in North Africa were some of the most notorious slavers in history, even leading attacks on Ireland to take white slaves. Egypt was built on slave labour yet I don't hear anyone demanding the Egyptian government pay reparations! All the middle-class liberal hand-wringing is an attempt to hide historical truth.

[@LICKSTERxx]

Notice the parasitic cliques major disproportionate role in the whole affair still isn't mentioned

[@michaelpcoffee]

If the people you confronted owned slaves; and they are your immediate family; then, you owned slaves. You must free them all immediately .

[@Jenny-e4v]

Laura, great video. I think u are a kind hearted woman, to acknowledge the wrongs of slavery. Your family's apology is worth noting .

[@Nectpost]

Africans we are too forgiven that our problem, but we all know what going to happen to the west, if Africa get it self together

[@Fsrjtyttzma]

Your families shame so your family pays reparations and £100k ain’t gonna cut it. Find the money from your wealthy family that are rich today because of their history. Leave the rest of us out of it. ..

[@dgd865]

Some of you say forget the past but how come the UK didn't forget to pay slave owners for compensation. What a shame.

[@DarthWaffle.]

I could care less if my ancestors owned slaves. I don’t and wouldn’t, that’s enough for me.

[@morriswilburn9858]

Walking the grounds on which your ancestors enslaved people must be a grim experience.

[@divinediva6320]

The University of the West Indies should have a reparations proposal similar to San Francisco, CA! The reparations s proposal was approved last month!

[@paulturner6834]

White guilt: the documentary 😎

[@paulturner6834]

@Dillan Powell I have no clue what you are on about

[@ashleyfairway.540]

comments here make me sad for humanity

[@brentjamescollins9731]

Me too! I have noticed it seems like every video the BBC release on KZbin seems to attract the very worst of humanity amongst KZbin commenters even compared to commenters elsewhere on KZbin! Don't know why that is but it's obviously not something good! Regards to you, Brent Collins.

[@stereofidelic67]

How many wealthy people and businesses from Africa will pay reparations to Grenadian's for their part in enslaving their own people?

[@musician1000]

I guess we Brits should be looking for compensation from everyone going back to Roman times, as we've been invaded and enslaved many times. And it's about time we got some of that Danegeld back.... Alternatively , we could all just move on....

[@anthonycoote9546]

You got it many times over based on enslaving others

[@musician1000]

@@anthonycoote9546 If only there hadn't been so many Arab's and African's dealing in the capture and subjugation of their neighbours, it all might have been avoided.

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

No, Britain should simply pay money to every black person on the planet. Its simply a matter of unpaid wages.

[@lf1496]

You're NOT human. Neanderthal DNA rules your irrational thinking 😲

[@musician1000]

@@eowawrzkiewicz Get a job.

[@OmaidaDeFrias]

The compensation for Owner's Slave, never have been, a legal payment ; just because, these "slaves" were human beings. But enslaving human beings is a crime, and that must be compensated by the United Kingdom, to all people of African descent.

[@sk00p]

Africans owes the United Kingdom for abolishing slavery and stopping Africans from further exploiting Africans for profit.

[@michaelpcoffee]

A nonvictim confronts innocent parents about something that happened to neither of them. Doesn't sound too traumatic.

[@orangewarm1]

Confront your family sins. and do it on tv.

[@michaelpcoffee]

@@orangewarm1 What sins did her parents commit?

[@garthyahudahandrews8504]

@@michaelpcoffee directly kidnapping and mudering people and stealing children

[@JamesSmith-vz8yr]

Name of ship Owners Abigail Aaron Lopez Moses Levy , Jacob Franks. Crown Issac Levy and Nathan Simpson. Nassau Moses Levy Four Sisters Moses Levy Anne & Eliza Justus Bosch and John Abrams Prudent Betty Henry Cruger and Jacob Phoenix Hester Mordecai and David Gomez Elizabeth Mordecai and David Gomez Antigua Nathan Marston and Abram Lyell Betsy Am. De Woolf Polly, James De Woolf White Horse Jan De Sweevts Expedition John and Jacob Roosevelt Charlotte Moses and Sam Levy and Jacob Franks Carocoa Moses and Sam Levy Source : Elizabeth Donnan, 4 volumes, “Documents illustrative of the history of the slave trade to America “

[@bubandlisa]

🤣🤣🤣 HER FAMILY PAST and yet she ONLY offers VIRTUE SIGNALLING EMPTY WORDS and she OBVIOUSLY has money BUT she wont be SHARING HER MONEY with her family slave descendants 🤣🤣🤣 but wants the gov to 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@KINGCABA-if4nk]

Literally, she’s mention on channel 4 directly that only the commoners of the taxpayers and government should pay. Virtual signalling is appealing to SJWs crowd. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYTQenaaZ6-LgLssi=w2frdWz9BeRQ5yVj

[@earlehagley3363]

As a black Grenadian We must remember not all white people ate racist and not all white people condoned slavery Yes we were enslaved by them but it was the same white people that freed the slaves

[@kevinpetzer936]

I want the slavers responsible to apologise for what they did to my family 2000 years ago...offs

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

They did nothing. For all you know your family were the Romans. No one can tell by looking at you or even by your name. But all black people suffer today because of slavery

[@orangewarm1]

They should do this on Who do you think you are

[@ItsTheExperience]

As a stolen African born in America now residing in Grenada, I am highly insulted!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sarahram4102]

How many times is she going to say “MY family OWNED slaves here in Grenada?” 😮.. Anyways I came here looking for information on the Whitemans in Grenada. My great grandmother was Ann Whiteman.

[@u3vs62cja]

Imagine feeling responsibility for things that other people have done 😂

[@M_SC]

Imagine not knowing what generational wealth is

[@JamesSmith-vz8yr]

The BBC pushed vaccinations on YOU even after the corononors report on their own presenter Lisa Shaw (21 May 2021) cited the cause of her passing as the Zastr Aennica jibbus jabbus. Can YOU believe the BBC?????

[@lf1496]

Imagine being a NEANDERTHAL descendant like you😲

[@u3vs62cja]

@@M_SC If your dad stole things, that doesn't mean that you've stolen anything.

[@xCobraCommanderx]

@@u3vs62cja wrong! FAKE NEWS! All you colonizers have got to go. By force. Communism will win!

[@auro1986]

in 1834 bbc gave slavery a new form and complicated the process for laura to buy slave

[@ohhhtommytommy8654]

You mean racist Britain were the ones to abolish slavery. I don't think poor people could have owned a slave either. So maybe you want to look at the rich.

[@activistbook3809]

Fake news

[@K-FOREST_Original]

Hi! How are you? It is especially summer in Korea/Seoul since yesterday. Already. There was a weather forecast for this summer, but it's faster, longer, and more severe. I'm worried. I wish you good health and good things this week as well. Thank you very much.

[@ninemoonplanet]

I am so tired of crying, for the First Nations people who lost children to Gov't sanctioned schools set up by the British, the amorality of the slave owners who made millions from people stolen too. I am of British, Irish, Scot, and Cornish descent, and I see those people still living with the inequality, the scars, the pain of losing families, children, babies to unfeeling, sometimes brutal treatment. Compensation? How do you even estimate the money for all of those people? Babies are worth how much? Facing racism, colour discrimination, is a heritage of the arrogance and denial of human life. Compensation? Scotland had the British land clearance, Ireland the deliberate potato famine, First Nations, the residential schools, the "reservation" usually far away from food and water, on poor lands. The people of African countries kidnapped, enslaved, brutalized. I am crying, knowing that I can no longer be proud to call any of my ancestry as a civilized society. As far as I know, none of my ancestors had anything to do with all of this history, but I know I am currently living on "stolen" unceded lands that I see white millionaires claiming to "own". Israel is operating an apartheid system, learned from the British, Canadian and American ruling class. All of North America had 20 million people living on it long before European people " discovered" it. 100% of all the Americas was already occupied, yet to the churches, rulers, chose to adopt the "Doctrine of Discovery". Now we see countries grabbing lands again, away from the people. We're NOT learning from history very well. 😭

[@stephenhumphrey7935]

Stop being a woke baby. I bet you vote Lib dems.

[@nicholasgerrish6022]

Where does this all end? Compensation cannot be open ended, otherwise half the world will be after it, for a multitude of different reasons, and not necessarily slavery. Apologise, and move on……

[@nicholasgerrish6022]

@Lessons in Logic Well, good luck in picking it up! Try getting compensation from certain African countries, who were involved with slavery back in the 18th century. This isn’t just “White man’s burden”……

[@bobsingh5521]

Just move on people. Forget talking about this past. Such a weak uninspiring narrative

[@hmmmmm2634]

Why? We’re still talking about what happened to the Jews in WW2. Slavery affected millions and destroyed generations

[@JAEGATS]

@@hmmmmm2634 Facts they never tell jews to move in only black people

[@vrclckd-zz3pv]

@gilkesisking who would that be?

[@vrclckd-zz3pv]

@gilkesisking I'm skeptical of your claim. The people you just listed are nebulous. You listed a bunch of organizations but no concrete names where I can Google a name and say "That person. That's the person rewriting history". Alright though I'll listen. What do you believe has been edited?

[@vrclckd-zz3pv]

@Follow the howl to be fair all countries are like that. America doesn't teach about Vietnam properly, Germany doesn't teach about the Holocaust properly, I suspect Japan doesn't teach about what they did to China properly. We should do that but it's not like we're the only country in the world to not want to bring up the shameful things we've done.

[@pezjme]

Where's my sammich

[@michelejackson7934]

Keep your blood money. Only hell can pay for it.

[@chrisl6291]

Religion, especially christianity, is how they keep wage slaves in check. Work hard, abide by the law & youll go to heaven? Give me a fudging break, break the law, fight for your share & secure your genetic line by taking what is necessary to raise a family from a system that is designed to take what u create to support the families of the already rich. U cant enslave a man who will not wear the chains, physical or mental. "...NEVER shall be sl@ves", thats why the UK created its own Church of England with the Queen as head ruling only we must rule ourselves, spiritually & temporally.

[@michelejackson7934]

@@chrisl6291 Religion has been used to make wrong. I intend to use it to make right Sicarii style.

[@chrisl6291]

@@michelejackson7934 If u cant justify your actions to someone who believes in nothing u cant justify your actions, find a better reason.

[@michelejackson7934]

@@chrisl6291 Slaves went through hell. Only hell could pay for what they went through. Keep the blood money.

[@alisjane621]

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[@Fred-jp6in]

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[@smithlandry25]

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[@billandrew6826]

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[@freddidi248]

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[@alisjane621]

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[@keinosmith874]

Pay the same amout to them please...

[@Cartamandua]

I'm sure that Laura's ancestors owned coal mines who used child labbour. Can I have reparaatiions for my ancestors' lost childhoods?

[@JK_JK_JK_JK]

🙄

[@jimthompson9370]

Is the BBC still flogging this one? They should drop this nonsense. Since ending the TASL (and others) over 200 years ago, at huge economic expense, we’ve also helped these people through the commonwealth for well over fifty years. Encouraging further discussion on this is simply an exercise in self harm. If these people want to be repatriated they can get on a plane and fly back ‘home’. They’re behaving like ungrateful children.

[@LICKSTERxx]

Keeps people's attention away from those behind the slave trade who also make ridiculous claims of persecution

[@jimthompson9370]

@@LICKSTERxx - if the BBC made films about the current slave trades they’d be helping many many more people.

[@nellyfootlong]

If I don't get money. I'm going to tell on you.

[@coolcat6103]

Not so bothered about the millions we took out around the world in wars tho?

[@MrShuttz]

This lady needs to hand over all her family's I'll gotten gains. Most people didn't own slaves but those who did should pay. I bet she doesn't do that

[@sb_____]

by that logic Britain owe india 45 trillion dollars that too in 1947 alone . imagine the interest on that amount . and i am talking about india only , Britain had 50+ more colonies

[@craigroberts5965]

Maybe we should serve prison sentences for crimes our dead relatives committed?

[@hmmmmm2634]

@@craigroberts5965 yes

[@craigroberts5965]

@@hmmmmm2634 nope.

[@raijinenel3116]

Why should she pay? She did nothing wrong

[@zanyzoo6767]

Its history, not good history but history all the same , move on . Money wont change that.

[@zimzimma5688]

Are you going to apologise for your families behaviour in Ireland as well or do we not fit the profile for your virtue signalling?

[@zimzimma5688]

@Lessons in Logic ahahahaha bigot? Please elaborate. What is it that makes me a bigot in your opinion?

[@flowerenki9818]

I'm so glad life have changed so much that we are free from slavery. Long ago most humans was slaves

[@StratsRUs]

You've jusr shown what you are.

[@higate_col]

If you think modern slavery doesn't exist you are very mistaken

[@bubandlisa]

@@higate_col yeah... currently CHINA DUBAI & SAUDI ARABIA all have slavery. China is the WORST they profit by having DETENTION WORK CAMPS profiting from slave labour... oh and APPLE factories in China too... they get paid pennies for 14 hour shifts and sleep in dorms at the factory as most employees cannot afford a place to live

[@onlyme219]

Some still are sadly, you are delutional

[@eowawrzkiewicz]

We are not free. When you work minimum wage that's slavery. When most of your money goes to rent and its basic accommodation, that's slavery. When countries bring in migrants to work their menial jobs...jobs that the locals won't do, that's slavery.

[@alihalis8850]

Elegant british people confront their disturbing history

[@divinediva6320]

So we need to do a Reparations program ! Yes, she should pay money to my family! My grandmother and father should have been given 40 acres to me and my family and the Royal British family!

[@dappadaily7597]

Guess things ain’t changed much exploiting others 🤪 n there resources”