FIND & POST LOCAL JOBS FOR FREE AT CARIBBEANLIFE.COM/JOBS Vol. 34, Issue 9 BROOKLYN EDITION March 2-8, 2023 GRENADA REPARATIONS APOLOGY Families of former European slave owners pay for the sins of slavery By Bert Wilkinson the 18th and 19th century owned If...
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FIND & POST LOCAL JOBS FOR FREE AT CARIBBEANLIFE.COM/JOBS Vol. 34, Issue 9 BROOKLYN EDITION March 2-8, 2023 GRENADA REPARATIONS APOLOGY Families of former European slave owners pay for the sins of slavery By Bert Wilkinson the 18th and 19th century owned If there were any doubts that about 1,200 slaves on six planta- Caribbean governments and the tions in three island parishes. In reparations movement are mak- recent months, Laura Trevelyan, a ing progress about making former prominent BBC News anchor and European slave owners pay for the journalist, had been traveling to sins of slavery, you only need to look Grenada to explore her family’s hor- at developments in recent weeks to rid past to slavery as they were be encouraged. preparing the way for the apol- In late December, The Dutch ogy ceremony in conjunction with government formally apologized to the local and the umbrella regional the world for its part in leading the Caribbean Reparations Commis- transatlantic slave trade, for
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