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2. Drax Hall Estate - Wikipedia

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   Drax Hall Estate is a sugarcane plantation situated in Saint George, Barbados, in the Caribbean. Drax Hall still stands on the site where sugarcane was first cultivated on Barbados and is one of the island 's two remaining Jacobean houses .

3. List of plantations in Barbados - Wikipedia

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   Drax Hall Plantation: St. George: 957 Once owned by Colonel James Drax, it is one of the oldest remaining buildings with a Jacobean-style of architecture in Barbados. By 1913 it was owned by Dunsany. As of 2017, owned by Richard Drax MP. Francia Plantation: St. George

4. Barbados 'pauses' acquisition of former slavery plantation ...

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   Multiple generations of people were enslaved at the 250-hectare Drax Hall plantation in Saint George, Barbados, a Caribbean nation that received at least 600,000 Africans between 1627 and 1833 ...

5. James Drax - Wikipedia

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   James Drax was the son of Mary (née Lapworth) Drax (born c. 1580) and William Drax (c. 1580 –1632), of Finham, in the parish of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire. [3]James Drax became one of the earliest English migrants to the island of Barbados.

6. Barbados may ask politician to pay reparations for slavery

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   The government of Barbados could make a wealthy Conservative member of parliament the first individual to pay for his ancestors’ The post Barbados may ask politician to pay reparations for ...

7. Industrial heritage of Barbados - Wikipedia

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   Drax Hall Estate, another of the three examples, is also located in Barbados. Newton Slave Burial Ground - The remains of nearly 600 slaves were found on the grounds of the former Newton Plantation, in use from 1670–1833, at a cemetery consisting of low mounds. [1]

8. Barbados may ask politician to pay reparations for slavery

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9. Richard Drax - Wikipedia

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   In 2023, the Barbados Government announced it was seeking reparations from Drax for his ancestors' involvement in slavery. [38] The Reparations Commission wanted Drax Hall to be returned to Barbados, to be made into a museum. However, in 2024, the case was dropped due to public opposition to the proposed purchase. [39] [40]