The Drax family pioneered the plantation system and played a major ... Mr Drax, 66, has faced calls to pay reparations to Barbados but previously insisted that although his family's past was ...

Farmer asserts that Barbados has embraced its history ... The decision to rekindle cotton harvesting at Hannay’s Plantation has elicited mixed reactions. For some, it represents a pathway ...

In 1678, Arthur's father (Edward) and his uncle (also named Arthur) had moved from the Carribean Island of Barbados to Carolina. With them they brought experience in plantation economics ...

Now a museum, this 18th-century plantation house (also known as Bush ... traveled to the island hoping the tropical climate of Barbados could cure him. This trip would be the only overseas voyage ...

These new, larger plantations stifled the region’s economies ... would have a huge impact on its economy. For example, in Barbados, 93% of exports were sugar, which meant that when European ...