The plantation dominated English-speaking Caribbean society long after independence

Evidence

In the English-speaking territories, the plantation retained its paramountcy. It continued to do so even after the anticolonial battles were fought and won. Forced by a demise in the international sugar market, its dominance has only recently been challenged. Thus, an examination of the Anglophone former colonies offers the best opportunity for interrogating the Creole foundation of West Indian nationalism, free from the mitigations introduced by nonplantation forms. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3215

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to ‘Grafting & Growth’ parallel — the plantation as infrastructure that outlived its colonial rationale, only displaced by external market shifts.