Barbados is looking for reparations from descendants of slave owners.
Actor Benedict Cumberbatch's family is among the potential targets.
Cumberbatch's ancestors owned a sugar plantation with 250 enslaved people.
The family became one of the richest in Britain due to slave labor.
Barbados was a key part of the British Empire's slave economy.
Slaves on the island faced brutal conditions and high mortality rates.
Cumberbatch has starred in films about the slave trade but is ambivalent about reparations for his family.
British taxpayers paid off debt for compensating slave owners in 2015, but Caribbean nations are still seeking reparations.
Barbados commission studied reparations and sought them from other countries and institutions involved in the slave trade.