One of Britain’s biggest brewer and pub companies is under pressure to make slavery reparations to the Caribbean nation of St Kitts and Nevis.
Greene King apologised four years ago after data from University College London found that after the abolition of slavery in 1833, Benjamin Greene, its founder, received almost £500,000 in today’s money when he surrendered rights to three plantations in the West Indies.
While Greene King has set out plans to become a “truly anti-racist organisation”, it is understood not to have made a financial commitment to the islands.
Officials in St Kitts and Nevis are due to take part in an online meeting with a team from Greene King at the end of February.
Carla Astaphan, the head of the St