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Across the Caribbean, governments are demanding that former colonial powers, like the U.K., France and The Netherlands, pay reparations for their involvement in slavery.

Anselm Gibbs, a 麻豆社 reporter in Trinidad and Tobago, explains what forms reparations can take and describes the specific demands that Caribbean nations have put forward.

We also hear from Akeem Chandler-Prescod, a member of the Barbados National Task Force on Reparations and his country鈥檚 Poet of The Year. He describes how the legacy of slavery still impacts people in Barbados centuries later and how the racial justice movement in the United States has inspired many Bajans to join the reparations movement.

Many European governments have refused to pay reparations. However, some individual families with historic links to slavery have decided to make payments. Laura Trevelyan, a former 麻豆社 reporter, explains why her family donated 拢100,000 ($120,000) to establish a community fund for economic development on the impoverished island of Grenada.

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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: William Lee Adams, Chelsea Coates and Benita Barden
Editor: Verity Wilde and Simon Peeks