Drax of Drax Hall How One British Family Got Rich And Stayed Rich From Sugar Slavery

'A damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant - they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent' - The Observer


'Eloquently reminds us that history is never truly past' - The New Yorker


'A family story straight out of Game of Thrones' - Alex Renton, author


While the British landed gentry profited from chattel slavery in the West Indies, the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset pioneered it. This is the story of the British Empire and slavery told through one family's grotesque history, and how its legacy is alive and well today.

About the author

Paul Lashmar is 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. He has been an investigative journalist in television and print, and on the staff of The Observer, Granada Television's World in Action current affairs series and The Independent. He is the author, co-author or co-editor of six books. He lives in Dorset.
David Adetayo Olusoga OBE is a British-Nigerian historian, writer, broadcaster and BAFTA-winning film-maker.

Summary

An unbroken British bloodline of slavery, exploitation, and unrepentance

Product details

• Authors: Paul Lashmar, Lashmar Paul
• Assisted by: Olusoga David (Foreword)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.03.2025
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9780745350516
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-5051-6
• Pages: 448
• Subjects: Capitalism, Dorset, History of Colonialism, Jamaica, Barbados, British Empire, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, HISTORY / Caribbean & West Indies / General, Colonialism & imperialism, Economic systems & structures, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Glorious Revolution, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery, English Civil War, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, Reparations, Slave trade, family history, Culture Wars, history of slavery, chattel slavery, abolition of slavery, David Olusoga, sugar plantations, Black British History, reparations for slavery, Reparations Debate, english colonialism, British Slave Trade, South Dorset MP, Brtish slavery, Carribbean history, English aristocracy, Battle of the Boyne, British landed gentry, England the slave trade, History of enslavement, Charborough Estate, British slave owners, Which British families owned slaves, How much is the Drax family worth?, Dorset landed gentry, Corfe Castle, Who is the richest MP?, Colonialism and the Carribean, history of plantations, History of slavery in Brita, Richard Drax, Legacies of colonialism and empire, Britain and the slave trade, Colonialism in the Carribean, compensation of owners of slave owners, Slavery in the Carribean, Carribean slavery, enclosure of commons, Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, Barbadian history, Slavery in Barbados