Jamaica’s economic decline set industrial capital against slavery.

Evidence

Jamaica, however, was the key. With half the total population of the British West Indies, Jamaica’s sugar planters claimed one-third of the sugar produced in British colonies. It was Jamaica’s deteriorating role in the world economy that would set the forces of industrial capital against slave economics. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 780

Jamaica, however, was the key. With half the total population of the British West Indies, Jamaica’s sugar planters claimed one-third of the sugar produced in British colonies. It was Jamaica’s deteriorating role in the world economy that would set the forces of industrial capital against slave economics. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 780

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in the causal arc ending the Black radical tradition’s high point — the economic forces that made abolition possible.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 780