Drax of Drax Hall by Paul Lashmar (.ePUB)
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Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery by Paul Lashmar
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Overview: Spanning 18 generations and 400 years, Drax of Drax Hall uncovers the grotesque history of the Drax family—one of Britain’s most enduring dynasties, whose vast wealth was founded on the brutal realities of the transatlantic slave trade.
Investigative journalist Paul Lashmar traces the origins of the Drax fortune back to 1627, when James Drax arrived in Barbados and effectively founded Britain’s sugar industry. Using enslaved African labour, the Draxes became pioneers of plantation slavery, codifying and exporting a system of profit and cruelty that would come to define the British Empire.
As the family prospered, their influence spread across the Atlantic. Their legacy remains strikingly intact: today’s Drax heir, Richard Drax, until recently a Conservative MP, still owns the family’s ancestral estate in Dorset and a 621-acre sugar plantation in Barbados. Unseated in 2024, he remains a hero amongst culture warriors for his refusal to make any reparations for his family’s role in slavery.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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