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James Drax
Sir James Drax (d. 1662) was a Barbados plantation owner who accumulated extraordinary wealth as a pioneer of the sugar trade in the English colonies. The Caribbean sugar plantations established by James Drax and those who followed his example would be at the epicenter of the growing British and French empires, helping to fuel economic growth and imperial expansion.
== Early Life and migration ==
James Drax was the son of William Drax, a gentleman of the village of Finham, in the parish of Stoneleigh, Warwickshire.〔George W. Marshall, ed., ''La Neve’s Pedigrees of the Knights Made by King Charles II., King James II, King William III. and Queen Mary, King William Alone, and Queen Anne,'' Publications of the Harleian Society, 8 (1873), 76-77; John Mathews and George F. Mathews, eds., ''Abstract of the Probate Acts in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury,'' Year Books of Probates, Vol. 1, Part 2 (London, 1902), 145.〕 In the late 1620s, James Drax became one of the earliest English migrants to the island of Barbados: he and his companions arrived and lived for a time in a cave, hunting for provisions, and clearing land for the planting of tobacco, which soon became the staple crop of the island.〔Jerome S. Handler, “Father Antoine Biet’s Visit to Barbados in 1654,” ''Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society,'' 32 (1967), 69〕 Drax later claimed that he had arrived with a stock of no more than £300, and that he intended to stay on the island until he had parlayed that initial investment into a landed fortune worth £10,000 a year back home.〔Richard Ligon, ''A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados'' (1657), 96.〕
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