Drax of Drax Hall (eBook)

How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery

Paul Lashmar (Autor)

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2025
541 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
9780745350523 (ISBN)

Infos

Important and timely ... Paul Lashmar uses the story of the Drax family's history as enslavers in Barbados as a microcosm of Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade Laura Trevelyan, journalist and author ofA Very British FamilyA family story straight out of Game of Thrones ... Old-school investigative reporting married with a fearless historian's eye for the truth. A brilliant book that anyone still trying to defend Britain's colonial history in the Caribbean will choke on Alex Renton, author ofBlood LegacyA timely retelling of the story of how one Englishman led the introduction of sugar and racial slavery to the Caribbean, as well as an eye-opening exploration of how the vast resulting profits were consolidated and enjoyed by generations of his descendants Matthew Parker, author ofThe Sugar BaronsThis book is a must-read Jon Lee Anderson, journalist,The New YorkerSpanning 400 years,Drax of Drax Hallis a story of a plantation owning dynasty that has never been told. It all started when James Drax, one of the first settlers in Barbados in 1627, founded the British sugar industry. His descendants went on to write the book on how to run a slave plantation. For more than two hundred years, the family enslaved up to 330 people at any time and became enormously rich.Today, the bloodline is unbroken, and former Tory MP Richard Drax heads the family from his vast Charborough Estate in Dorset. With physical assets worth at least 150m--not to mention the 621-acre sugar plantation in Barbados--he was the wealthiest landowner in the House of Commons. Today, he remains a hero amongst traditionalists and culture warriors for his refusal to make any public reparations for his family's historical role in slavery.Drax of Drax Halllifts the lid on a grotesque period of the family's history. Through enclosure at home and enslavement abroad, their exploits expose the ugly realities of colonialism and empire--the legacies of which we have yet to confront.PAUL LASHMAR is an investigative journalist and Reader in Journalism at City St George's, University of London. He has taken an interest in the history of slavery since he developed a Channel 4 series on Britain's slave trade in 1999. Paul has been on the staff ofThe Observer, Granada Television'sWorld in Actioncurrent affairs series andThe Independent. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books and lives in Dorset.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2025
• Vorwort: David Olusoga
• Zusatzinfo: 29 colour photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: abolition of slavery • Barbadian history • Barbados • battle of the boyne • Black British History • Britain and the slave trade • British Empire • British Landed Gentry • British slave owners • british slave trade • Brtish slavery • carribbean history • Carribean Slavery • Charborough Estate • chattel slavery • Colonialism and the Carribean • Colonialism in the Carribean • compensation of owners of slave owners • Corfe Castle • Culture wars • David Olusoga • Dorset landed gentry • Drax Hall • enclosure of commons • England the slave trade • English aristocracy • English Civil War • English colonialism • Family history • Glorious Revolution • History of Colonialism • History of enslavement • history of plantations • history of slavery • How much is the Drax family worth? • Jamaica • Legacies of colonialism and empire • Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax • reparations • reparations debate • reparations for slavery • Richard Drax • Slavery • Slavery in Barbados • Slavery in the Carribean • slave trade • South Dorset MP • Sugar plantations • Which British f • Who is the richest MP?
• ISBN-13: 9780745350523 / 9780745350523