{"id":39,"date":"2023-02-16T09:36:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/?p=39"},"modified":"2023-02-16T09:36:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T09:36:12","slug":"my-forefathers-did-something-horribly-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My forefathers did something horribly wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>British slave owners\u2019 family to apologise and pay reparations<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/grenada-wheel-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/grenada-wheel-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/grenada-wheel-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/grenada-wheel-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/grenada-wheel.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>An aristocratic British family is to make history by travelling to the Caribbean and publicly apologising for its ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved Africans. The Trevelyan family, which has many notable ancestors, is also paying reparations to the people of Grenada, where it owned six sugar plantations.<br \/>\nIn 1835, the Trevelyan family received \u00a326,898, a huge sum at the time, in compensation from the British government for the abolition of slavery a year earlier.<br \/>\nA \u00a3100,000 fund, donated by the New York-based BBC correspondent Laura Trevelyan, will be formally launched in Grenada on 27 February by Sir Hilary Beckles, chair of the CARICOM Reparations Commission, and Trevelyan family members.<br \/>\nNicole Phillip-Dowe, vice-chair of the Grenada National Reparations Commission, said: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely fascinating that I am seeing history being made. It takes a leap of faith for a family to say, \u2018my forefathers did something horribly wrong and I think we should take some responsibility for it\u2019. It is commendable that the Trevelyan family has taken this step and I hope it will be followed by others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Paul Lashmar and Jonathan Smith, writing in the Guardian Newspaper<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British slave owners\u2019 family to apologise and pay reparations An aristocratic British family is to make history by travelling to the Caribbean and publicly apologising for its ownership of more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reparations.community-languages.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}