![]() Those running the property don’t like the negative attention – and attempted visits – that have come with that.Still, we gave it a try one evening, driving down a dirt road and parking outside the grand home with its rust-red-trimmed roof and green shutters. It’s believed to be the oldest building of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.A government source told me it was fine to stroll onto most plantations, but when I asked a local to join, she laughed: “No way we can go there!” The current owner, conservative British Member of Parliament Richard Drax, has refused to engage in conversations around reparations for slavery, even as momentum for reparative justice has grown in recent years. ![]() The sugar plantation has been in the same family’s hands for nearly four centuries, and the property hosts a 17th-century house made in the late English Renaissance Jacobean style. When I was reporting in Barbados in May, a visit to Drax Hall was a must-do.
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