SUE REID: In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the sugar plantations of the West Indies helped to make Britain the world s richest country - at appalling cost to millions of enslaved Africans.
One plan is to convert Drax Hall in Barbados to "an Afro-centric museum" and low income housing, and for Drax himself to pay for at least some of the work that would be necessary for that to happen.
<p>The availability of clear records tying British families – like that of actor Benedict Cumberbatch – to Caribbean slavery has made the movement for reparations in Barbados and other island nations very visible, if not yet successful. </p>