The former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan and the Labour MP Clive Lewis speak to Nicole Vassell about their fight for reparations for the descendants of slavery, their haunting ancestral connection, and why their friendship endures in spite of it
Former BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan said her great-great-great-grandfather Sir Charles Trevelyan was among the officials who failed their people in the 1840s.
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Laura Trevelyan, 54, announced in February, her family would donate £100,000 to help community projects in Grenada to make up for their slave holdings on the island.
Sometimes English historical oversight is so egregious it must be calculated, we Irish suspect. Or at least that's what we tell ourselves, until we remember the truth is actually worse – we often don't signify to them at all.