The planters in the colonies were in many ways a direct contrast to the unique economic and political position of the absentee planters. The Caribbean was still populated by a class of British citizens who managed, operated, and owned slave plantations. Many of these people had resided within the West Indies for generations therefore were deeply entrenched in the local management and politics of the region. Green in his work on the subject describes how these were not colonies that had just developed out of thin air but in fact, “constituted an area old and fixed interested in imperial policy, as in all politics, national priorities were determined by real interests, not visionary schemes.” These were not colonies and operations build on some semblances of good-will, or drive toward the betterment of…