| International Standard Book Number |
9780745350523 ePub ebook
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780745350530 PDF ebook
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780745350516 hc.
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| International Standard Book Number |
0745350518 hc.
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| Personal Name |
Lashmar, Paul, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjrx4mrRQ7FDWPQWhvDVT3
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| Title Statement |
Drax of Drax Hall : how one British family got rich (and stayed rich) from sugar and slavery / Paul Lashmar ; foreword by David Olusoga.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
London : Pluto Press, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
xix, 406 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Spanning 400 years, Drax of Drax Hall is 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 Hall lifts 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"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Drax family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Slave trade History. Barbados
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sugar trade History. Barbados
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Slaveholders History. Barbados
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Plantation owners History. Barbados
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Great Britain Colonies History. America
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Barbados Colonization.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Olusoga, David, writer of foreword. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJr7TfKH4TkB4KqKXydxXd
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| Additional Physical Form Entry |
ebook version : 9780745350523
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