Grenada: Confronting the past

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

BBC World News anchor Laura Trevelyan discovered her family’s slave owning past only after the University College London database of slave ownership in the British Caribbean was published in 2013. Back in the 18th Century, the Trevelyan family were known as absentee slave owners on Grenada. The family never set foot on the island, but owned hundreds of slaves and profited for years from the sale of sugar harvested from five different sugar cane plantations. To try and learn more about the legacy of slavery on Grenada and her family’s involvement in the slave trade, Laura Trevelyan and her producer Koralie Barrau go to Grenada.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the BBC World Service.
0:02.4	I'm Laura Travalian.
0:03.8	This is Grenada confronting the past.
0:06.9	A warning to listeners.
0:08.5	Some of the descriptions you're about to hear may be distressing.
0:15.9	Hard to this time begins in St. George, capital city of Grenada.
0:19.9	What do one miles long and 12 miles wide?
0:22.4	Grenada doesn't appear to be a very large place, does it?
0:25.0	The tiny British island boasts many fine plantations.
0:28.7	The British government, first of all, was a apologise.
0:32.6	Who heartedly, with regards to the rule that it played in the slave trade.
0:38.5	These were people robbed from their families, robbed from their homelands,
0:42.4	traveled for three to four weeks,
0:44.4	and spaces as small as a coffin or even less.
0:48.2	I'm just curious to know,
0:50.7	if it's possible that my relatives
0:54.8	owned your ancestors.
1:00.1	There is a possibility.
1:02.9	It's sickening.
1:04.4	Could have been me, the whole trailer post, that it could have been me.
1:16.7	This market day here in St. George's,
1:18.6	the capital city of the Caribbean island of Grenada.
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