Abstract
Many people in later eighteenth-century Britain, varying from rich merchants and absentee planters to workers on ships or in manufactures serving the islands, had concerns with the West Indies. In leading ports like London, Bristol, and Liverpool, West Indians organized themselves into associations to promote their interests. Such people sought to influence government and to act as a group in the House of Commons. Such influence as they were able to exert depended principally on the persuasive case that they were able to establish about the importance for Britain of the wealth generated by the West Indies. Edmund Burke and his political connection, the Rockingham Whigs, were firmly committed to this view and sought to enlist British West Indians as their political allies.
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