UK family to apologise in Grenada over slave-owning past - BBC News 

Iam surprised BBC left the comments on for this video.

Someone that never owned a slave apologizes to someone that never was a slave.

She's only donating £100,000, despite the UK government giving her £34,000 compensation which would be worth more than £3,000,000 today.

The government pledged £20 million in 1833 in order to reimburse the owners of slaves when slavery was abolished in Britain. The sum, while big now, was monstrous in 1833, and it took the British taxpayer 182 years to pay off.

Are these the same Trevelyans that engineered an already terrible famine into something far far worse in Ireland in the 1840s? Will they be trying to repair the damage dine in Ireland

Great. Can the UK government please pay my Irish relatives for all the pain and racism of the past? This is simply self-centred virtue signaling. Pay your workers more if you feel guilty

Why!?, I'm black and this is pointless, you shouldn't apologize or be held responsible for the sins of your ancestors

Yet they still benefit from slavery....they should be stripped of their wealth. Its still dirty money.

People apologizing for something they didn't do; to people it wasn't done to. A cheap publicity stunt.

Downright embarrassing - how can you apologise on behalf of someone you never met, for something that happened before you were born?

This just speaks to a juvenile comprehension of history ...

Newsworthy , but I notice it's always Britain and America in the news about this , I never hear about Portugal , Spain or so many other countries.

Would they like to apologise to me for making my great grandfather get up at 4am and dig ditches in the freezing cold all day? I'm short of a bob or two at the moment, so a bit of reparation would come in handy.

I think this is raising interesting questions - but making people apologise for it now seems a bit weird

Do any African families intend to apologize for selling them in the first place?

There are more slaves now than during that period. Let that sink in. Majority are women and children.

Not sure if it's the 'correct' way to think but i find this mostly pointless, keep the mistakes of our ancestors in our minds as to not repeat them but there's no point appologising for their actions since not only was we not there but we can't speak for them either. Learn from them but there's no point making silly gestures that quite frankly acheives little to nothing. It does keep the mistakes in our mind which serves some purpose i guess so who knows but from my perspective there's far better ways of preventing the past from repeating than a potentially meaningless gesture. And at this point thank god i can't imagine a Britain where it is repeated.

Why stop apologising for just 5 generations of your family ? Why not 25 or even 100? Go back that far and she may find out that her family were slaves themselves

As a black American it's very sad to see all of anger-fueled comments below. An apology is not necessary. This lady did that and it was very kind but unnecessary. What she did do right though is something that I hope more people come to realize, which is that her family and herself have benefited/are still benefiting from slavery. The very least you could do if you are that kind of person is to help out the effected communities. I hate that I have to remind people of this, but slavery wasn't that long ago. Some people's grandparents were slaves so the effects are still active. Remember that whole communities and cultures were torn apart. People were MURDERED, RAPED, and ENSLAVED. So yea, if you're benefiting you should help out those communities in some capacity if you can. Obviously if you're barely making it yourself then it's whatever, but for those that are in positions of power and wealth such as this lady, they/you should be helping out more. No it wasn't you that did these things, but you sure are enjoying the perks and benefits of the ugliness that your ancestors created. So help out the less fortunate, especially when your ancestors are the reason they are less fortunate.

Hypocrisy

They held slaves until it was illegal. Nice folks.

Grow a pair! You owe nothing to anyone! 🤬🤬🤬🤬

I would never admit to or apologise for something I didn't do.

Why should they apologize for something they had no hand in Quite Frankly it's Africa that Should apologize to her Because it's Africa that sold her in to slavery

Return the stolen generational wealth and let's see if the apology is still on the table. Add inflation & compound interest, n investment . In todays money, its over £30 m

My cousin did my family tree and as far as I know none of them owned slaves. One of them nicked a sheep but I don't know who from.

What for, was it them? Silly virtual signalling.

Why ? Just why ? Would we expect the modern German population to apologise for ww2 ? Answer.. NO.. People just need to let it go, it's way in the past.

Just sterlize your bloodline if you feel so bad about it

My great, great, great uncle was a Missionary, and an African tribe cooked him in a big pot. Do you hear me keep banging on about it ? And the chief stole his top hat !

What next? A family member from hundreds of years ago murdered someone so now you in the present day have to apologise to their family today? 🤪

Notice she kept saying “absentee slave owners?” That’s to not take accountability. Hilarious!

So if they are blaming diet/obesity etc on slavery, why are Merikans so plump? You can land in N.Merika from anywhere in the world, but if your a whitey you owe reparations and must return to the UK immediately after paying up even if your from Norway or wherever. Assuming due to skin colour is the definition of racism. (Colour is UK).

This is utterly absurd.

Apologize to who; for what? Punishing the innocent for the sake of nonvictims over something that happened to neither of them is not justice. The dead owe and are owed nothing.

My mothers side of my family are English. I know for sure that they never owned slaves... they were poor whites. I guess that my family were being disrespected by the richer people in some way or another in those days.

This is insane and ridiculous, and anyone with common sense knows it. Imagine working at the BBC and having to report on this with a straight face acting like you believe it's a "step in the right direction". Shame on corporate media for encouraging this shit, the sins of the father are not mine own etc etc etc

So people of mixed race are in a quandary now. 😂

😂😂😂 I want an apology from Rome

If reparations are to be paid then it should by the families who got rich from this not the taxpayer where 99% didnt.

Welfare dependence will do more harm to people who have been free for generations.

Don't play games. Return the money's

For perhaps he therefore departed for a season, that thou shouldest receive him for ever; Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved. Philemon 1:15-16

Forgiveness can only be requested and not self righteously assumed.

Be careful and don't push anyone too far based on some nonsensical historical guilt, lest it be repeated.

What happened had happened and can't be erased. Forgiveness is only the answer to the victims because it will relieve your emotions

Pandering and publicity ..... How can anyone alive today be responsible for anything that happened 150 years ago...

in check or money order?

Some of these comments speak volumes about people's inhumanity. If these comments were directed at the victims and ancestors of the Jewish holocaust they would be taken down by RU-vid. I anticipated the double standards because it's routine.

There is slavery in Africa right now 😢 why no one talking about that ????? 😂😂😂😂

Late, but a nice gesture, slavery was tragic, horrendous. But no one admits or acknowledges that thousands and thousands fought and died to *end* slavery, too. I hate that slavery happened, also Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, the "Rape of Nanking," the Holocaust, the atrocities of Idi Amin and Pol Pot, etc, etc. We could go back for centuries, millenia, apologizing to each other for every tragedy in history, and it wouldn't change a thing. For our future decendents' sakes, we should look ahead, instead, and try for some peace and unity *now.* (And she is trying). But no one has the resources to fix the entire past, and right every wrong of every nation, every century.

It's like Jesus died for everybody's sins including mine. He didn't I wasn't even born at the time. You shouldn't be punished for sins of you long past family

Not even the Royal Family can apologise despite having a larger social presence?

1:43 ," We repudiate our ancestors' involvement in it" . What does it mean? You are denying slavery.

Endless Pain Of Toxic Colonialism.

Yawn, every type of person can claim to be victims of slavery if they trawl back far enough

she's gone down rabbit hole now of being responsible for everything her ancestors did. If she wants to personally sell her house and give up all her money to Caribbean she's welcome to do that but NO amount of wealth would compensate for pain and suffering caused by her ancestors over hundreds of generations

An apology isn’t going to change what their family did. Horrible to have owned slaves and they should at least I’ve the family more than an apology.

Kudos to you Laura and family, for first acknowledging the evils of the past and apologizing. This alone means a lot to us descendants of the enslaved. I watched the event and it was very emotional. If I were there in person, I know I would have wept uncontrollably. Let's pray that others follow suite. Salute!

If you have money burning a hole in your pocket, then why don't you do something to help the 40 million people in slavery in 2023?

This is ridiculous

The countries screaming for reparations should have to pay the British taxpayer who paid off the slave holders to get the British Empire to abolish slavery in 1833

You dont, thats the correct answer

As ADOS(African American descendant of slavery),all I want to know is where is our money.

Crazy All civilizations had slaves .....

Pointless.

In a famous irish song the family name comes up: By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling "Michael, they have taken you away, For you stole Trevelyan's corn, So the young might see the morn. Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."

Is she going to apologise for her ancestors mismanagement of famine relief where one million people died. Hypocrites

More woke virtue signaling.

Why is this news?

I find it appropriate for Trevelyan the main financial beneficiary of her slave owner forefathers, to hand out some money in Grenada. The truth is that she is probably giving a lot of money to her own distant family members some of which may probably have more of the original slave owners genes than she has. The slave owners had unfettered access to the female slaves. Victims and perpetrators, genetically.

When are the Romans and Vikings going to apologise?

When I studied abroad in Japan I was so upset that everyone didn’t bow and apologize for Pearl Harbor when I would walk by. Smh

bbc and royals send some servants to say sorry to servants?

Oh dear.

Where is the apology from Queen Mbandi Nzinga's family? Anthony Johnson and William Ellison's family? Black slave traders' families in western Africa? Slavery would not have existed without the numerous black slave traders.

Why should I apologise for something in the past that I had no control over? Ridiculous!

Do we expect Rome to say sorry about all the slaves they had a thousand years ago they were almost all white by the way. No we don`t as that would be dumb. The past is the past. Stop apologising for something we never did.

I’ll look forward to the apology from African tribal leaders who rounded up and delivered their people ready for slave export.

ffs its hundreds of years ago

watching from Grenada in the Caribbean. Nick Mack is here. Can you get me and my family back to africa, that's all I want.

I want to publicly announce that my ancestors have, no matter the circumstances always without a shadow of doubt, because their parents did it without question..voted labour...sorry folks...you should vote for who you think can make a positive difference to the population..and not just dig your heels and be hard headed about it....I might give monster raving loony party a go this time.

She pledges to take 100,000 UKpounds from her retirement to give in reparations. Grenada has a population of 100,000 people. HEY - GRENADANS !! enjoy your 1-pound each!

The family in question did as much or more harm to the people of Ireland.

So it begins First people do it out of an ignorant and misguided sense of obligation, then the government puts it into law and punishes those that don’t pay up.

But they didn't own the slaves, why would they apologize? Something doesn't add up

The church too should apologise for supporting this trade

Who is the next BBC employee to hand out a reparation? Maybe it should be Alex Scott? Her Jamaican ancestor owned slaves in the 1820s.

Maybe look at Ireland next.

they want to kill all Orthodox in Ethiopoa they kill 38 people yesterday it is so sad pls make a video on

Slaves are too much hard work.

This is unbelievably ridiculous. Under these circumstances, Mongolia should apologise to half the world. Prince Charles should personally apologise to me because his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Unga Bunga hit my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather Ooga Booga over the head with a club.

Are the Romans going to apologise to the British for enslaving them

You cannot apologise for what someone else did, or it adds to the lie of guilt by association.

Christian slave morality continues to thrive with Wokeness.

Virtue signalling incoming why doesn't she sell her house and pay reparations, we never ever owned no slaves, why should we pay for your fathers sins. Your family did it, you carry the guilt. No me or my family, why should we pay for sins of your family...

Being a Mongal mixed race Aussie,Could I get reparations for the Scottish high land clearances? Or what about the Irish famine, I might have a chance with the stolen generation, though ,no not black enough.

Bye bye BBC . You will reap what you sow.

Like listening to fingernails down a blackboard.

Get over it