In style Hollywood actor Benedict Cumberbatch is now in authorized hassle. If information experiences are to be believed, the household of the Academy Award-nominated actor is going through potential authorized motion over its historic hyperlinks to the slave commerce in Barbados.
If a information report by DailyO is to be believed, “Cumberbatch’s seventh great-grandfather purchased the Cleland plantation within the north of Barbados in 1728, which housed 250 slaves till the abolition of slavery in 1834. The slave plantation is reported to have made the Cumberbatch household a small fortune.”
The case towards Benedict Cumberbatch and his household attracts its roots from the allegations posed on British Conservative MP Richard Drax. In November final yr, the BBC reported that Richard Drax is going through calls for to pay compensation for the function of his ancestors within the slave commerce. Stories counsel that Drax inherited the Drax Corridor plantation in Barbados after his father’s dying in 2017. And now, because the investigation deepens, experiences counsel that this case has connections with Benedict’s household as effectively.
Because the hate marketing campaign towards Benedict and Richard Drax grows louder within the Caribbean nation, the Barbados authorities is prone to insist the 2 celebrities pay reparations for slavery over historic hyperlinks to a sugar plantation in Barbados,’ in response to The Telegraph.
“Barbados’s Nationwide Job Drive on Reparations, a part of the Caricom Reparations Fee (Caricom), beforehand targeted on in search of reparations from colonial powers and rich establishments that made hefty earnings from slavery,” The Guardian reported.
“Not too long ago, nonetheless, it singled out a particular household for the primary time, focusing on the British Conservative MP Richard Drax over his household’s possession of an enormous sugar plantation on the island,” per The Guardian.
