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Grenada: Confronting the Past

202224m
DocumentaryHistory

Status

Released

Release

2022

Runtime

24m

Storyline

In the eighteenth century, the family of BBC World News anchor and correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, were absentee slave owners on the island of Grenada, profiting for years from the sale of sugar harvested from five different sugar cane plantations. When slavery was abolished in 1834, the UK government paid compensation to slave owners, but the enslaved received nothing. In the wake of the racial reckoning in America following the death of George Floyd, Grenada's national commission on reparations for slavery has begun to meet and debate what reparations means. In this film, Laura she travels to Grenada to try and learn more about the legacy of slavery on Grenada and her family's involvement in the slave trade.

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Details

Status
Released
Runtime
24m
May 14, 2022
Languages
English
Production
BBC
BBC
Production Countries
GrenadaUnited Kingdom
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