Entangled Past: how descendants of enslaved and enslavers in Grenada embarked on journey of repair

In their book, the historian Nicole Phillip and journalist Laura Trevelyan use connected experiences to show how reparations can work in practice When the Grenadian historian Nicole Phillip opened an email from the then BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan in 2022, she uncovered a connection that stretched back centuries. Their ancestors had stood on opposite sides of enslavement in Grenada: Phillip’s among Africans forcibly taken from their homes and enslaved, Trevelyan’s among the British families who profited from a system that inflicted unspeakable cruelty and inhumanity on generations of enslaved Africans. Continue reading...