From around the year 1500, millions of west Africans were sent to work mainly on plantations in the Caribbean and the ...

descendants of slave owners and slaves in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the same table with diplomats and experts from those nations to discuss the issue of reparations.

The great-great grandson of 19th-century British prime minister William Gladstone says he “shocked and horrified” to learn that his ancestors were slave owners in Jamaica and Guyana.

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat ...