Most immigrants remain in the exploited lower working class, suffering discrimination and poverty. Race relations have worsened as the number of blacks has increased, prompting the most important social debate of post-war English society
Review of Peter J. Wilson's Crab Antics: The Social Anthropology of English-Speaking Negro Societies of the Caribbean (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973)
The book under review was mostly about United States slavery, but included information about the West Indies; on population and demography, emancipation, the Haitian slave revolt and the sugar trade. The book also included information about the Caribbean and South America in the chapter on "The International Context of U.S. Slavery," pp. 13-37
