Laura Trevelyan is a journalist and advocate for reparations for slavery. She’s an associate fellow at the PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy at University of the West Indies and a trustee of the Trevelyan Grenada Reparations Fund. Trevelyan left BBC News in 2023 after a 30-year career as an anchor and correspondent, following a family trip to Grenada to apologize for the role of their ancestors in enslaving Africans there. She co-founded Heirs of Slavery, a group of British people whose ancestors profited from Caribbean-African enslavement, and co-hosted the podcast “Heirs of Enslavement” with British MP Clive Lewis, whose ancestors may have been enslaved by Trevelyan’s. She is the author of “A Very British Family: The Trevelyans and Their World” and “The Winchester.”
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While elected officials debate the necessity and scope of reparations for the historical stain of slavery, some individuals and private institutions with ties to the slave tra...