ONE of Powys' most historic buildings features in a National Trust report about links to colonialism and slavery. The interim report titled 'The Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust' was first published last September. Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable, Head Curator, National Trust said: "From the sixteenth century, merchants had sought increasingly to consolidate their socio-economic and political status by acquiring country estates and marrying their children into the landed classes. "From the mid-eighteenth century until the abolition of slavery in the 1830s, the absentee landlords of West Indian sugar plantations and their heirs invested and settled in country houses and estates. As the historian