Laura Trevelyan, an anchor and correspondent with the BBC was shocked to discover her ancestors had enslaved Africans on the Caribbean island of Grenada. Despite abolishing slavery, none of the families of the enslaved received reparations, including those of more than a thousand Africans enslaved by Trevelyan's ancestors.  To make amends, she and David Lascelles co-founded Heirs of Slavery, a group encouraging wealthy British families who profited from past enslavement to make formal apologies and seek reparative justice in the former Caribbean colonies. Today in Grenada, 7 members of the Trevelyan family presented a formal letter of apology to the people of this Caribbean island. “We apologize for the actions of our ancestors in holding your ancestors in slavery.” 104 members of the Trevelyan family signed the apology. pic.twitter.com/9pDqesJXNU — Laura Trevelyan (@LauraTrevelyan) February 27, 2023   The group is lobbying the British government to engage with ...