#Tory MP from #SlaveOwning family set to gain £3m from sale of former #plantation
#Caribbean historians want #RichardDrax to pay #reparations – but now #Barbados plans to buy his land for homes
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/tory-mp-from-slave-owning-family-set-to-gain-3m-from-sale-of-former-plantation
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Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation | Slavery | The Guardian
Colonialism still isn't dead
Tory MP Richard Drax is set to make £3m from the sale of his family's former slave plantation
The move has angered many Barbadians, especially those who say the Drax family played a pivotal role in the development of slavery based sugar production and the Barbados slave code in the 17th century. This denied Black Africans basic human rights, including the right to life
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Letter to Richard Drax, UK Conservative MP, Re: Being a numpty.
Dear Richard,
Fuck right off now.
Yours tellingyou togetfuckededly,
UK voters without their heads up their arses.
A British MP is targeted by a reparations demand over Caribbean slavery.
Barbados wants to nationalise a sugar plantation owned by Richard Drax, a wealthy member of parliament for the Conservative Party and descendant of a family of colonists enriched by the slave trade on the island.
Barbados plans to make Tory MP Richard Drax the first individual to pay reparations for his ancestors' significant role in slavery.
Drax, MP for South Dorset since 2010, still owns the sugar plantation in Barbados that was established by his slave-owning ancestors.
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