These heirs of powerful families are soon set to convene in order to establish how they can practically atone for the actions of their slave-owning ancestors.
More than 100 of Britain’s most distinguished families have signed up to a campaign to provide reparations for slavery, it can be revealed.
Speaking to The Telegraph in Grenada, Trevelyan explained that this was the start of a growing “movement, saying: “Over 100 have come to us. Over 100 descendants of slave owners in the British Caribbean. Prince William and Princess Kate in Kingston, Jamaica in 2022, where Britain has had a long history of slavery.The Heirs of Slavery group ai to follow the lead of Caricom , a political and economic union of 15 member states in the region, which has pushed for reparations and devised a 10-point plan for how they should be made by European powers. Their plan includes increasing education on slavery, formal apologies, and cash for development.
She added that large families might need time to “get their ducks in a row” and decide what they want to do collectively. An inaugural conference of Heirs of Slavery is set to take place in London in November to help to decide what the families will do.
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