West Indian blacks held skilled industrial positions reserved for whites.

Evidence

Both grandfathers had achieved positions normally reserved for whites in the nineteenth century. Rudder, especially, achieved an expertise with locomotives that still put him in occasional demand even in his late retirement. He jealously husbanded his knowledge from whites. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2339

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Category: Factual Claims