The British historians wrote almost is if Britain had
introduced Negro slavery for the satisfaction of abolishing it. They have made
such play of the compensation provided by Britain to the planters as wiping off
the debt to the west Indians in respect of slavery that it is difficult not to
see in this attitude, developed and propagated over a century and a quarter, the
explanation of the British Government's attitude on economic aid to the West
Indies and on preferential treatment of the West Indies sugar industry.
