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The Legislative Reform Committee was a political reform group in Trinidad established in 1856. The group was an alliance of French Creole cocoa interests, British merchants and a smaller number of non-white professionals. The group was opposed to Indian immigration, the indentureship system, and to the level of control exercised by appointed officials from Britain. All of these things they saw as favouring sugar interests above those of other sectors of the population.[1]: 45
Background
[edit]- Crown colony government
- Crisis in sugar
Reformers
[edit]- Robert Guppy - radical
- Philip Rostant - liberal
- Louis de Verteuil - conservative
- Stephen Gatty
- Henry Alcazar
References
[edit]- ^ Magid, Alvin (1988). Urban nationalism : a study of political development in Trinidad. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. ISBN 978-0-8130-0853-0.