British colonial rule confined educated Black Trinidadians mainly to civil-service posts
Evidence
Probably a majority of educated black and coloured men in this period were civil servants. With commerce virtually closed to them, teaching, the professions, and the service offered the only viable alternatives, except for the relatively small number of coloured planters. Only a small minority could hope to obtain the university education essential for law or medicine. This left employment in the service, including teaching in the government schools, as the only source of acceptable white-collar jobs. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1160
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1160
- XREF: connects to: Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries.; Colonial education programs created the dependency complex they then blamed on blacks