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Family Descended From Slaveowners to Pay £100,000 to Grenada

Vue sur Prickly Bay, Grenade.

Vue sur Prickly Bay, Grenade.

Source: Severine BAUR/Photononstop RF

A British family whose ancestors had slaves in the 1800s is to apologise to the people of a Caribbean island and pay reparations.

One of the family members, a BBC reporter, said the Trevelyan family is apologising "for the role our ancestors played in enslavement on the island" of Grenada.