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The Dark Legacy of the Drax Family: Wealth Built on Slavery, Denial Maintained by Silence - Dorset Eye

Summary by Dorset Eye
“Sugar, Blood and Silence: The Drax Family’s Wealth and the Price Paid by the Enslaved” The story of the Drax family is not just a footnote in Britain’s colonial past; it is a brutal exemplar of how immense wealth and land ownership in England were built directly on the bodies and suffering of enslaved Africans. The family’s sprawling Dorset estate, today still held by Conservative MP Richard Drax, is a living monument to one of the most violent…
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Dorset Eye broke the news in on Friday, April 11, 2025.
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