While the point might be argued for the eighteenth century, there can be no doubt that in the nineteenth British influence over the West Indian colonies was considerably greater than that of the West Indies over Britain. The abolition of first the slave trade, then slavery itself, and finally the sugar duties were only three events which shaped colonial development. Yet we should not allow this to obscure the fact that the slave colonies had important effects on the British perception of their own society. Reversing the traditional direction of examination of nineteenth century cause and effect makes it possible to gain new insights into the attitude of mind which resulted in abolition. It also allows us to highlight some of the contradictions inherent in the world view of the metropolitan propertied class of the early nineteenth century — contradictions which eventually brought about changes in that world view.
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