Aristocratic British family whose ancestors owned 1,000 slaves to apologize and pay $120,000 to reparations fund

• A wealthy UK family is to pay reparations to Grenada, where their ancestors once owned 1,000 slaves.
• The family is launching a £100,000 ($120,545) fund in Grenada on 27 February.
• The vice-chair of the Grenada National Reparations Commission said, "I am seeing history being made."

A wealthy British family is to publicly apologize to people in Grenada, an island in the Caribbean, where their ancestors had owned more than 1.000 slaves in the 19th century. 

The Trevelyan family owned six sugar plantations in Grenada. They plan to pay reparations to the descendants of slaves.