Racial closure of commerce pushed educated black Trinidadians into civil service
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
Category: Causal Relationships