#draxes — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #draxes, aggregated by home.social.
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‘At the height of their power, the #Draxes enslaved up to 330 people at any one time. The violence was staggering: life expectancy for the enslaved on the island was just five years.
Lashmar makes clear that, while figures such as #Clive or #Rhodes may loom larger in the public imagination, James Drax deserves equal, if not greater, infamy as one of history’s great profiteers of human misery.’