Barbados halts £3m plan to purchase Tory MP’s former slavery plantation amid backlash
by Nadine White
Apr 24, 2024
3 minutes
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The Barbados government has halted plans to buy a £3m former plantation from a British Conservative MP whose family profited from slavery.
Richard Drax, the MP for South Dorset, owns a 617-acre land in Barbados that was once operated as a sugar plantation by his ancestors in the 17th century, where thousands of enslaved African people were forced to work.
The government had planned to pay market value for his land to provide housing for Barbadians, while simultaneously pursuing the politician for reparations over his family’s instrumental role in .
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