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Descendants of slave owners in the Caribbean call for reparations at the UN

Great-great-grandson of William Gladstone tells of ‘profound sense of guilt’

The Independent UK

Here’s what Keir Starmer gets wrong about reparations: we’ve made them before, but now we have to do it right

The call for justice is not going away. Rather than ignore it, Labour should be entering the conversation – and shaping it, says academic Kojo Koram

The Guardian - UK

The history of Caribbean slavery is being lost. Britain must act now to preserve it

The Guardian - UK

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A BBC journalist and an MP were making a podcast about slavery – it proved both personal and shocking

The former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and the Labour MP Clive Lewis speak to Nicole Vassell about their fight for reparations for the descendants of slavery, their haunting ancestral connection, and why their friendship endures in spite of it

The Independent UK

The week in audio: Lights Out: Dust; The Bakersfield Three; Heirs of Enslavement – review

Can it be true that Radio 4 is axing the brilliant Lights Out? Elsewhere, Olivia LaVoice joins the dots between three murders in a gripping true crime podcast. Plus, a hit-and-miss look at the legacy of slavery

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: The truth about Oatly’s climate-friendly credentials

In this week’s newsletter: Journalists put the plant-based brand to the test in The Oatly Chronicles. Plus: five of the best Today in Focus episodes

The Guardian - UK

The descendants of a British owner of slaves in Guyana apologize as Caribbean seeks reparations

The descendants of a 19th-century Scottish sugar and coffee planter who owned thousands of slaves in Guyana have apologized for the sins of their forefathers and called slavery a crime against humanity

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Family of former PM William Gladstone to apologise for links to the slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies

Evening Standard

William Gladstone’s descendants to apologise for family’s part in slave trade

The former prime minister’s father, John Gladstone, was one of the largest slave owners in the British West Indies.

The Independent UK

William Gladstone: family of former British PM to apologise for links to slavery

Descendants of PM whose father’s wealth came from sugar plantations travel to Guyana for 200th anniversary of rebellion by enslaved Africans

The Guardian - UK

Ancestor’s Irish famine role could merit compensation, says Laura Trevelyan

Sir Charles Trevelyan was Treasury official during great famine in 19th century when potato crops failed

The Guardian - UK

British aristocrats ask King Charles to join a slavery reparations movement

Two members of U.K. aristocratic families, Laura Trevelyan and David Lascelles, are apologizing for centuries-old injustices in the Caribbean, and asking others to join them in paying reparations.

WEKU

Descendants of UK slave owners call on government to apologise

Heirs of Slavery body wants restorative justice to tackle ‘ongoing consequences of this crime against humanity’

The Guardian - UK

Laura Trevelyan urges King Charles to apologise for historical links to slave trade

Ex-BBC journalist who made formal apology on behalf of her family to descendants of enslaved also wants UK government to express remorse

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King Charles needn’t sell off the crown jewels in atonement for slavery – but Britain must waive Jamaica’s debt

Money can only ever begin to make amends, says activist and former broadcaster Barbara Blake-Hannah

The Guardian - UK

Listening to the descendants of slaves must be the first step in restorative justice

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Laura Trevelyan, who is trying to make amends for her family’s slave-owning past

The Guardian - UK

My family owned 1,000 slaves and profited from the trade: this is how I am trying to make amends

I left the BBC to fight for restorative justice. The £100,000 we have so far donated to Grenada should be seen only as a first step, says campaigner Laura Trevelyan

Daily Mirror

BBC journalist quits corporation to join fight for Caribbean slavery reparations

BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has quit her job to join the Caribbean's fight for slavery reparations a month after her family announced a £100,000 payment in return for their slave-owning past

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The Guardian - UK

Laura Trevelyan quits BBC to campaign for reparative justice for Caribbean

Decision comes after Trevelyan family apologises for ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved African people

The Independent UK

BBC correspondent quits role weeks after apologising for family’s slave history

Laura Trevelyan’s aristocratic family once owned more than 1,000 slaves in Grenada

The Guardian - UK

British slave owners’ family makes public apology in Grenada

Laura Trevelyan, a BBC correspondent who investigated her family’s link to the slave trade, also pays £100,000 in reparations

The Guardian - UK

We whose ancestors owned slaves want to make amends – but nations must also pay their due

My family owned plantations, but how my generation atones can only ever be a start, says author and campaigner Alex Renton

The National (Scotland)

BBC journalist pays £100,000 in reparations for family's slave ownership

A BBC journalist is to pay £100,000 to make reparations for her aristocratic family’s slave-owning past.

Daily Mirror

BBC reporter and her wealthy aristocrat family to apologise for their slave trade shame

The aristocratic Trevelyan family, which owned six sugar plantations and thousands of slaves on the Caribbean island of Grenada, are going to publicly apologise to the country and use £100,000 to establish a community fund on the poverty-stricken island

Chronicle Live

Former Wallington family to apologise for its slave owning past

The Trevelyan family is to pay £100,000 in reparations to the island of Grenada

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