US farmer whose family owned slaves wants to make amends - a podcast by BBC World Service

Over the last year, since the death of George Floyd in the United States, the pledges from businesses to restructure or acknowledge the structural inequalities within America have increased.

And among the promises of equality, with better pay and better job opportunities for African Americans, there have been conversations around reparations - the idea that practical measures, and financial payments, could make amends, or go some way, to address previous wrongs.

There is also a bill, currently making its way through congress, which would open a conversation about discrimination, and the possibility of compensation to the descendants of slaves.

That’s America as a nation, but what if individuals in the US, researching their own family history, decided that they wanted to try to right previous wrongs..

Stacie Marshall is a farmer from North-west Georgia, who is trying to do just that.

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