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Juggling With Eggs<p>‘<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Drax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drax</span></a> of Drax Hall is not just a look into the dark sources of one family’s fortune; it is an indictment of a nation’s refusal to reckon with its past. </p><p>Lashmar’s book is a necessary, damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant – they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent.’</p><p>This is not my first post about the Drax family. Their exploitation and the dominance they still hold deserves to be known and scrutinised…and ultimately there must be a reckoning.</p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>‘James <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Drax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drax</span></a>, the family’s 17th-century patriarch, was not merely a plantation owner but the founder of a system of control and punishmen. </p><p>Arriving in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Barbados" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Barbados</span></a> in 1627, he was instrumental in shifting the island’s labour force from white indentured servants to enslaved Africans. By the 1640s, he had devised the plantation model that would dominate the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Caribbean" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Caribbean</span></a> for centuries – a vast industrial machine, extracting staggering wealth through calculated cruelty.’</p>
Juggling With Eggs<p>Great news on the exposing the current British elite’s links to the slave trade. </p><p>A certain rightwing Brexiteer <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Dorset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dorset</span></a> ex <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tory</span></a> MP who really does deserve to be better known for his family’s cruelty, exploitation and the fact their wealth was entirely built on <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a>, is the subject of a new book…’<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Drax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Drax</span></a> of Drax Hall’ by Paul Lashmar. </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/30/drax-of-drax-hall-by-paul-lashmar-review-forensic-expose-of-a-british-dynasty-built-on-slavery" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/books/2025/mar</span><span class="invisible">/30/drax-of-drax-hall-by-paul-lashmar-review-forensic-expose-of-a-british-dynasty-built-on-slavery</span></a></p>
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