Sir Hilary Beckles, chairman of the Caribbean Community Reparations Committee, has called for Conservative MP Richard Drax to “hand over…the Drax plantation” as reparation for the part his ancestors played in the Caribbean slave trade.
Sir Hilary makes a watertight argument that the estate should be part of the National Trust and open to the public to enable funds to go back in to the public purse not in to his own private funds.
He is still benefitting from the killing and mass exploitation of slaves. This is not just about the past but about the present and the future.
Here Sir Hilary Beckles clearly explains the history of slavery in Barbados and why those who still live off of the ‘most evil society ever created’ :
For a full analysis of the barbarity that enabled the Drax estate and their fortune see:
James Finlayson
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