Barbados has halted the £3 million acquisition of Drax Hall, a former slavery plantation owned by Richard Drax, a British Conservative MP. The decision, led by the Barbados leader, came amid public backlash and calls for the land to be transferred to local ownership rather than financial compensation to Drax. Drax, one of Britain's wealthiest MPs, has historical family ties to chattel slavery in the Caribbean, which significantly contributed to his family's wealth. The controversy centers around the perception that instead of Drax paying reparations for his family's past, the Barbados government is compensating him, a move criticized by the 'Reparations Cabal'.
⚠️ BARBADOS 'PAUSES' ACQUISITION OF FORMER SLAVERY PLANTATION OWNED BY TORY MP Full Story → https://t.co/FNzORTGlnw Barbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British Conservative MP after locals said he should transfer land ownership to… https://t.co/Qa4V8KnELX
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The incoherent Reparations Cabal is up in arms because the Barbados government is buying a property from Richard Drax which used to be a local plantation. They see it as instead of him paying reparations, the Barbados gov is paying him. https://t.co/TypPuJRWiq
“He is one of the richest MPs in Britain, because of landholdings in Dorset…which would derive from his family’s earnings from slaves and sugar.” Now, Barbados's government is set to pay Richard Drax £3 million for his family's plantation on the island, explains @axrenton. https://t.co/U0UsfAqCru
Richard Drax, the Tory MP whose family were key to the development of chattel slavery in the Carribean, is set to be paid £3m from the sale of his former slave plantation Last year, I went to deepest Dorset to find out more https://t.co/GtdXYYS1De