Confronting my family’s slave-owning past in Grenada - BBC News 

What, how and why are Trinidadians descended from Grenadian slaves?

@@maxwellhurlock6285 A Lot o Grenadians emigrated to Trinidad after emancipation until now. My father was a first generation Trinidadian and he said there used to be lots of Grenadians in Trinidad

@@cagelsthrough this is very true. All of my grandmothers siblings immigrated to Trinidad and started their families there. My grandmother was the only one who stayed in Grenada. There is an inside joke amongst Grenadians that says: “they are Trini to the bone, but Grenadian to the marrow.”

thats true many of our immediate grandparents or great-grandparents are from Grenada

Same here as a Grenadian

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You need to check with the Africans, that enslaved your ancestors, and sold you to the Europeans.

Thats because nobody cared to keep family records. I'm from India and we have family records at least laye 1700. We have an extended family gathering every 5 years from anyone we know that is part of that ancestry line.

Is there no depths of inhumanity this woman’s ancestors and Baronet Trevelyan stooped too? He set in motion the genocide of Ireland starving them to death or transport.

The ironic part is that black tax payers paid towards this

@Jay Dee except this time it'd actually matter because it'd be people who are actually facing slavery

They have absolutely no responsibility to help in any way shape or form. This happened generations ago, by the way this coming from someone whose great grandparents found and died for the independence of my country from Britain and whose country suffered immeasurable damage and harm from colonialism. Still, those people in the video did not suffer slavery and the other group did not own or partake in slavery

@@hyper7354 Agreed! They have NO responsibility to do anything... but if the wealthy beneficiaries of slavery wish to participate in benevolent acts, they can do much. This would be more relevant to corporations such as Tate & Lyle.

Everyone's ancestors had slaves at one point. Is it fair that one people are given reprubution and others not, that's racist

It would be a splendid gesture if UK Universities built with the profits of the slave trade were to open campuses in the West Indies etc and collaborate with students and local govts in many different fields, I'm sure those students in the news report would love to study in a UK school.

The government should be responsible for that. It’s ridiculous to punish people today for what their ancestors did in 1800. It’s like finding out your great great great great great grandfather murdered someone in 1800 so you get life in prison or the death penalty. Just because an ancestor got compensation when slavery ended does it mean it’s still in the family. So wealthy people whose ancestors owned slaves should pay up? And people who are not wealthy should take out bank loans or what?

It's not herr fault just like Jesus getting crucified, not my fault I wasn't even born at the time. Nothing to do with me. I'm British are the Vikings going to give back what they stole? This argument could go on forever. We should not have to pay for what our late ancestors did, for example, not all Germans now are Natzi, it's not their fault what happened before they were born. Grow up, Rob

That's a nasty comment whereby you know that the presenter is not at fault for the actions of her ancestry. Do you not think that Grenadians, and other Carribbean people, travel business class as well?

@@onlyme219 Your points are valid, but relate to things I specifically did not say. Try to improve your comprehension skills

@@onlyme219 lol he is not talking about what you think he is talking

@@robbowman8770 Please explain and elaborate on how my comprehensive skills are lacking in my reply?

And you are you.

And if you are still colonising people today as you did 200 years ago through wars and financial strangleholds then you should pay dearly

Modern day slavery is an actual thing tho? "No one alive today was a slave." couldn't be any further from actual facts.

I used to think that way but if you listen to why they want reparations it does make sense. By taking slaves we made their entire lineage worse off. They can (and have) built themselves back but they're worse off than they would have been had their parents been able to pass on to them the wealth that their parents passed on to them. I'm not a particularly rich person but my parents were able to feed me and educate me. My parents were only able to do that because their parents did the same. When you take someone as a slave you break that chain and force someone to start from square one. The point of reparations is to help the people who lost out get back to where they should be faster.

We are all slaves to big tech... . government and our mobile phones.

Yes I find it strange when someone is so upset about their great, great, great, great, great grandparents forced Inyo slavery yet do nothing to help those enslaved today. They call it human trafficking but it’s slavery. But, they don’t care about them.

@@amazingsupergirl7125 who is they?

@@amazingsupergirl7125 Some 'human trafficking' is just unauthorized voluntary transportation.

Why not both? Stop deflecting

@@MEGIDIOT because fixating on the past never does any good for anyone

Ikr it's like she's proud of her history. 😂

As a slave, or even in the UK before unions were formed, the wealthy and industrial classes did not consider safety at work, rest periods for the tired, lighting etc. Of course there were accidents, especially when flogged if the rate of production slowed!

@@freeopinion2140 She's acknowledging her history and the tangible part she can see.

Couldn’t have put it better

Her Reparations Bill = £100,000 ?!? That’s all ? 😂😂 Unbelievable.

​@@jintsfanIt should've been 10p. 😂😂

Her grammar is correct. Her family did own slaves. By the time they landed on the island they were already enslaved. By her family? Unsure. The people who enslaved them were the ones who raptured them away from their freedom. This could have been a neighbouring tribe at war with them, captured and sold on to slave traders or outright being captured by slave traders on raided shores.

@@Totaltwist how do you think a person is made into a slave? what do you think is necessary to force people to work? torture? r*pe? brutality? how do you think those people were clothed or fed? how did they form families ? and how do you prevent those people, who are the majority of humans on the island, for rebelling and kill you, the person who is holding them captive? MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE ENSLAVED BY HER FAMILY - there HUMANITY WAS CONVERTED INTO WEALTH that is still benefiting this woman today. It is not a neutral relationship of property. There was action and agency necessary to make people into commodities.

@@bl00dhoney Honey, I am just talking about grammar here and I think I already made the point how they could have been enslaved. Now being kept enslaved would have involved oppressive tactics to demoralise and force compliance. But that is a different topic.

@@Totaltwist how is it a different topic? 'Capture' the verb your looking for. Captive is the noun. The process of turning a person into a slave, and keeping them in that state/status, is not restricted to the process of capture. Hence why the verb "to enslave" is preferred over "to owe" - which centers the perspective of the enslaver and their unjust property rights over other humans

@@bl00dhoney Please reread my first comment. I did lay it out. And FYI enslave /ɪnˈsleɪv,ɛnˈsleɪv/ verb past tense: enslaved; past participle: enslaved make (someone) a slave. "the practice of enslaving prisoners of war eventually died out" Similar: Sell into slavery cause (someone) to lose their freedom of choice or action. "they were enslaved by their need to take drugs"

Hmm I would say maybe , if you think. It is still oke today , to own other continents countries land resources. But I am sure , you don't have their shoes on and think it is perfectly oke to only pay towards wars interventions as you still do.

I've had ppl from different backgrounds who seem to love mentioning "you're a slave" etc talk non stop, while we try to forget some ppl LOVE to remind us of our past, if you don't believe me just ask any random black person. After arriving in Canada in 1988 one of my white co-workers said to me in public on a bus full of white ppl in a very loud tone "I'd love to put you on a plantation to work" ! I was in complete shock at his words later I found out he was Irish which made sense since most Plantations/Sugar estates in the West Indies were run by Irish ppl, (this is why Jamaicans speak with an Irish tilt) their service to the English lords or upper class in running those places paid off handsomely many of them now own large businesses in Jamaica and Barbados Trinidad etc.

You're so entitled that you know shit.

She's a posh BBC lurvie, using licence payers money to further her SJW feel-good agenda.

I, too, would like the BBC to make different documentaries concerning the slave trade. I'd like more information on why some African tribes sold their own to slave traders. I would like more information about the indigenous peoples of the Carribbean such as the Arawaks and Caribs; they were killed or committed suicide but you can still see stone markings in Grenada. Additionally, like you stated, more information about the British navy patrolling the seas to enforce the end of slave trading. Also, documentaries regarding the first 50 years of the end of the slave trade. Perhaps an account of the white people in the Carribbean; were all slave owners or overseers? What about the Indians (I believe probably from the regions now called Bangladesh) predominantly in Grenada, Trinidad and Jamaica and a few other islands or the Chinese?

HEAR HEAR!!

@@fabiennemitchell2371 those docs are easy to find on RU-vid if you cared to watch them but you don’t care, you like others get a migraine over stuff that doesn’t concern you, only a small handful of white British made an obscene amount of money from enslaving Africans, your missing the point, it’s not the fact they Africans and for your information my grandmothers mother was born a slave so it ain’t to far back in history for me, your anger seems more about race than the treatment of other humans, do you know if poor white brits were able to do the work African Slavs did you to would deserve reparations because your ancestors would have been slaves, oh hang on, that’s Australia.

But she is Jewish

I felt that way too. She’s awful cheerful for such a somber situation. I think I’d be bawling my eyes out standing in front of that classroom of children.

She’s not even remorseful, she seems proud

The kids look disturbed and sad… smh

she's saying all this WITH RELISH - her language is so insensitive and frankly cruel

She's not rubbing it in. She's highlighting an historical injustice.

What ignorance

God does Joel 3

Same way I feel zero remorse about 9/11 blah blah yawn yawn

@@hmmmmm2634 Lol you’re mad

No, just give yourself up for slavery. Say goodbye to your name, your family, your language and freedom over your body. Maybe when you do that you will feel remorse.

@Pale Rider the English didn't exist in the roman empire. They are an amalgam of many ethnicities. If any ethnic English exist today they are probably discriminated as northerners. Also those people were not black, so when they were freed they could mix into society freely

Pathetic Brit

Britain also had an empire spanning 75% of the world, slaughtering, stealing, and persecuting. And now some fat buffoon with a naughty schoolboy haircut is ruining the country.

F### your Britain now they f###ing your white women

PSYCHOPATHS!!!!!

The only reason they did that was to prevent a Haitian style revolution in Jamaica and other English controlled Islands, it wasn't always because of anti slavery "activists" or altruism it was about total fear of LOSING everything in flames & chaos so the safer option was just stopping the brutality before it engulfed them all.

Laura is putting fact to her family history; an ironic look.

And don't forget the Sultan of Turkey who sent aid to the Irish undercover in order not to upset the Royal family and the English.

@@Chingy3ade wonder which ottoman occupied country he stole the food from

Never apologise for something *you* haven’t done. I’m no more responsible for what people in my family tree have done, before I was even conceived, than you are.

You are responsible of your conscience unless you have none. If your family inherited £30 million because they lost "chattel", you don't need to be a rocket scientist to understand how much your family got from that. For generations. And the incredible injustice and excruciating insult it was for freed slaves. Their humiliation of watching their former owners strive, whilst they carry on working for peanuts, this time as "apprentices". The same land their ancestors plowed and worked still crushing them whilst their captors shoot up the wealth ladder.

@@ghostagee5232 literally doesn’t change my point, somebody else did that, not them. Don’t apologise for something you haven’t done.

@@ghostagee5232 now if you think that they should give some of the money back that they’ve inherited though previous dubious practices, that’s a different story. But they’re still no more responsible for what their ancestors did than you or I are.

Watch your mouth white boy

They had a job, they built everything you have. They just didn't get paid. Pay up!

@@eowawrzkiewicz yawn. They didn’t build everything I have. Get over it. Go tend your goats. Punk

@@eowawrzkiewicz I’ll pay the worthless mongrels with lead.

O shut up

Slav doesn't mean slave.... it means word, because the Slavs all spoke the same language before.

Anyway when other people were enslaved they could always be absorbed into the population and integrates in society. With Black people they were forever doomed to be marginalised by the Whites.

@@eowawrzkiewicz The term slave has its origins in the word slav. The slavs, who inhabited a large part of Eastern Europe, were taken as slaves by the Muslims of Spain during the ninth century AD.

@@ha-nocri9923 no you are wrong

Good joke

What? did yall british forgot what yall did to indians espiecially the bengal famine that killed millions and here you are saying you guys are the good guys?

Hahahaha yeah congratulations great britian!

@@baseplate7566 without the British you would still be burning your women alive.

If you're the good guys for abolishing slavery when you did, are you also the bad guys for having had slaves to begin with?

Agree. The Jews has a lot of money. They made a lot on slave trade also

If I had to guess, they are being removed because they are bots. There are ways to determine that fairly effectively.

@Dillan Powell I have no clue what you are on about

Yawn

@Pale Rider no one said you did but those of inherited money did they should give back, you would want that for your people.

I somewhat agree with you but I think the whole thing about black people selling other black people doesn't make sense. Yes that happened but if someone got caught trying to buy a child it wouldn't be a legitimate defense to say "but look who was selling me the child! It was the parents. You should let me go and punish them!" You'd punish both the person trying to buy the child as well as the parents who were selling it. We don't have the authority to punish people in another country but we can force the people who are still benefiting from it in our country to pay their dues. They didn't personally take part but they got money through inheritance and I'll gotten gains are still ill gotten gains even if the crime happened hundreds of years ago. It should be the people who actually have that money that pay it back though, not the tax payer.

I am a 'white' english person and friends with descendants of ancestors involved in the transatlantic slave trade, and I completely disagree with your comment Mr. Anthony! I have become very much aware during the course of that friendship of ongoing adverse personal and national consequences concerning their situation! I suggest you do some obviously much needed research on the subject! Your previously espoused degree from Exeter University and involvement with the United Nations obviously do not help you with this subject! More importantly, more care for and about the situation of your fellow man would not go amiss with comments like these, considering most importantly that all of us that have been or will in the future be given human life could equally have been given that life in the other person's place! That you obviously don't care very much for your fellow man with comments like these I personally find deplorable, and you have offended many other people including myself with your previous comments concerning the Ukraine situation, which some other RU-vid users reporting you to RU-vid for infringement of their policies! I personally did think of contacting Exeter University and telling them how and why you were undermining the status of their degrees if it is actually the case that you do have such claimed degree as you have previously stated issued by them! Brent Collins.

Then pay them for their work, give them free top quality education. Abolish rent for them. Fair is fair

And it was the British taxpayer who had to foot the bill.

@@jameswhiteley6843 That’s irrelevant. If the British state was culpable, then it should have directly paid those slaves on freedom; not the slave owners.

@@titteryenot4524 - so are they also asking for reparations from those that sold them in the first place?

@@jimthompson9370 My point was that the slaves should have been compensated; not the slave owners. I’m not for compensation centuries after the event, but for the people culpable living at that time, then they should have coughed up compensation there and then, on slave release.

@@titteryenot4524 - a not unreasonable position, but paid by whom? It cost the U.K. so much we were indebted until recently!!! Maybe those that sold them? Asking the Arabs, Central and North Africans, Portuguese at that time might prove unproductive even before any calculations were attempted.

@Marek Cracovia all forms of slavery is bad it doesn’t matter we will enslave our own kind and Romans were the first to start it. They were enslaving their poor people first before going overseas to enslave people from other countries. So, the human race is the worse to itself.

I'm not sure you can hold her personally responsible for the actions of her ancestors.

@@craigroberts5965 she still has the stolen money, im not saying she murdered with them im saying if you decide to go there and talk about it, then bring your own money

@@bloodcake1337 the money isn't stolen. And it wasn't paid to her.

@@craigroberts5965 money which was made using slaves is stolen, therefore afterwards the money they received was also stolen ... they literally received money for being rich enough to own slaves ... wtf are you talking about its not their money

@@bloodcake1337 Slavery was legal at the time. And the money was paid by the British government to her ancestors. It was obviously reprehensible. But it wasn't stolen money. And it wasn't her.

Me too! I have noticed it seems like every video the BBC release on RU-vid seems to attract the very worst of humanity amongst RU-vid commenters even compared to commenters elsewhere on RU-vid! Don't know why that is but it's obviously not something good! Regards to you, Brent Collins.

Confront your family sins. and do it on tv.

@@orangewarm1 What sins did her parents commit?

@@michaelpcoffee directly kidnapping and mudering people and stealing children

Yes but most slaves could be absorbed into their population. For the Blacks that wasn't the case. They were condemned to be marginalised because they were black and forever identified as descendents of slaves. They were denied the opportunities to aquire wealth and status for themselves. They actually worked towards it when they were freed, but the ex slave owners didn't like it so they denied them access and continued to steal from them. When they get paid for all the work they did, when they get ensured access to top quality education from birth, when they get the access to live in all neighbourhoods without ever having their place questioned then we can move on.

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Imagine not knowing what generational wealth is

The BBC pushed vaccinations on YOU even after the corononors report on their own presenter Lisa Shaw (21 May 2021) cited the cause of her passing as the Zastr Aennica jibbus jabbus. Can YOU believe the BBC?????

Imagine being a NEANDERTHAL descendant like you😲

@@M_SC If your dad stole things, that doesn't mean that you've stolen anything.

@@u3vs62cja wrong! FAKE NEWS! All you colonizers have got to go. By force. Communism will win!

Africans owes the United Kingdom for abolishing slavery and stopping Africans from further exploiting Africans for profit.

Literally, she’s mention on channel 4 directly that only the commoners of the taxpayers and government should pay. Virtual signalling is appealing to SJWs crowd. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KSmICd2JXJY.htmlsi=w2frdWz9BeRQ5yVj

They did nothing. For all you know your family were the Romans. No one can tell by looking at you or even by your name. But all black people suffer today because of slavery

You got it many times over based on enslaving others

@@anthonycoote9546 If only there hadn't been so many Arab's and African's dealing in the capture and subjugation of their neighbours, it all might have been avoided.

No, Britain should simply pay money to every black person on the planet. Its simply a matter of unpaid wages.

You're NOT human. Neanderthal DNA rules your irrational thinking 😲

@@eowawrzkiewicz Get a job.

Fake news

@Lessons in Logic Well, good luck in picking it up! Try getting compensation from certain African countries, who were involved with slavery back in the 18th century. This isn’t just “White man’s burden”……

Traitor

Coward

@@jeanclaudejunior Lolz. “President of what?” - Snake

@Alena Barrett is that Vietnamese? GLORY TO UNCLE HO CHI MINH! 🇻🇳 Communism will win!

Religion, especially christianity, is how they keep wage slaves in check. Work hard, abide by the law & youll go to heaven? Give me a fudging break, break the law, fight for your share & secure your genetic line by taking what is necessary to raise a family from a system that is designed to take what u create to support the families of the already rich. U cant enslave a man who will not wear the chains, physical or mental. "...NEVER shall be sl@ves", thats why the UK created its own Church of England with the Queen as head ruling only we must rule ourselves, spiritually & temporally.

@@chrisl6291 Religion has been used to make wrong. I intend to use it to make right Sicarii style.

@@michelejackson7934 If u cant justify your actions to someone who believes in nothing u cant justify your actions, find a better reason.

@@chrisl6291 Slaves went through hell. Only hell could pay for what they went through. Keep the blood money.

Why? We’re still talking about what happened to the Jews in WW2. Slavery affected millions and destroyed generations

@@hmmmmm2634 Facts they never tell jews to move in only black people

@gilkesisking who would that be?

@gilkesisking I'm skeptical of your claim. The people you just listed are nebulous. You listed a bunch of organizations but no concrete names where I can Google a name and say "That person. That's the person rewriting history". Alright though I'll listen. What do you believe has been edited?

@Follow the howl to be fair all countries are like that. America doesn't teach about Vietnam properly, Germany doesn't teach about the Holocaust properly, I suspect Japan doesn't teach about what they did to China properly. We should do that but it's not like we're the only country in the world to not want to bring up the shameful things we've done.

You've jusr shown what you are.

If you think modern slavery doesn't exist you are very mistaken

@@higate_col yeah... currently CHINA DUBAI & SAUDI ARABIA all have slavery. China is the WORST they profit by having DETENTION WORK CAMPS profiting from slave labour... oh and APPLE factories in China too... they get paid pennies for 14 hour shifts and sleep in dorms at the factory as most employees cannot afford a place to live

Some still are sadly, you are delutional

We are not free. When you work minimum wage that's slavery. When most of your money goes to rent and its basic accommodation, that's slavery. When countries bring in migrants to work their menial jobs...jobs that the locals won't do, that's slavery.

by that logic Britain owe india 45 trillion dollars that too in 1947 alone . imagine the interest on that amount . and i am talking about india only , Britain had 50+ more colonies

Maybe we should serve prison sentences for crimes our dead relatives committed?

@@craigroberts5965 yes

@@hmmmmm2634 nope.

Why should she pay? She did nothing wrong

@Lessons in Logic ahahahaha bigot? Please elaborate. What is it that makes me a bigot in your opinion?

The inhabitants have made it gorgeous. We can see what you're implying.

@@mandymann I just made a comment. Can I not be accused of thought crime?

What?

@@NMiller80666 When you paying reparations to the Indians who were there before?

@@NMiller80666 You will still pay, it'll be tax money they use, not your own bank account money haha