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'A damning reminder that the ghosts of empire are not distant - they are living, breathing and, in some cases, still collecting rent' - The Observer
'Eloquently reminds us that history is never truly past' - The New Yorker
'A family story straight out of Game of Thrones' - Alex Renton, author
While the British landed gentry profited from chattel slavery in the West Indies, the Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family of Dorset pioneered it. This is the story of the British Empire and slavery told through one family's grotesque history, and how its legacy is alive and well today.
Contents
List of Plates
Foreword by David Olusoga
Abbreviations
Prologue
Maps
Introduction
Part I Drax Hall, Barbados
Part II The Erles of Charborough
Part III Barbados and the English Civil War
Part IV Post-Restoration
Part V The Grosvenor Years
Part VI The Wicked Squire
Part VII Four Barrels and a Smoking Gun
Part VIII Nemesis
Archives
Family Trees
Ten Major Dorset Landowners 1883-2020
Acknowledgements
Index