Crown colony rule is soon established in…

Crown colony rule is soon established in other British colonies.

In the constitutional reorganization of the late nineteenth century, only Barbados manages to retain its representative assembly.

Jamaica and the Windward Islands join Trinidad as colonies fully administered by the crown, while the Leeward Islands experiment with a federal system.

With periodic adjustments, crown colony government will endure until the middle of the twentieth century.

Despite its paternalistic rhetoric, and many practical reforms in the social, educational, and economic arenas, it retards political development in the West Indies by consistently denying the legitimacy of political organizations while elevating the opinions of selected individuals.

By so doing, it narrows rather than broadens the social base of political power.