Exposure to metropolitan English freedoms radicalized colonized Blacks into overthrowing empire

Evidence

[W]hen you look at the results of those Africans who had been to England, you wouldn’t be far wrong in saying that England had been the executioner of its own colonial empire. In the sense that she had allowed these blacks to feel the contrast between freedom in the metropolis and slavery in the colonies. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1233

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the experience of colonial elites educated in the metropole who later led anti-colonial movements — connects to the broader arc of how the Black radical tradition’s members were forged. — connects to: Colonial racial ideas circulated bidirectionally between metropole and province.