Eric Williams Contribution To The Independence Movement

Question: Outline Dr. Eric Williams’ aims, activities, and contributions to the Independence movement in T&T up to 1962.
Introduction
The aspects that will be examined in this topic is a brief history of Dr. Eric Williams’, his aims, activities and contributions that led to the Independence movement in T&T up to the year 1962.
Eric Eustace Williams’ was born on the 25th September 1911 and he was the son of Henry and Elisa Williams. He attended Queen’s Royal College and while on his way to the college he noticed the way people lived. The relationship between the rich and the poor, the white and the black, and the right and the wrong. Whilst his years of reaching the higher forms in college his future was forming in his mind. Because of his observations of the society, he was already thinking of a way to make Trinidad a better place and there was an “inward hunger”. Even though he had that thinking at an early age, he was also in sports.
Williams’ played football and he was the captain of the team and played for his college and he had an outstanding career in forward line. The year 1932 was Williams’ most outstanding year because he won the college football championship with his team’s effort,

Williams’ was at a better place to understand why the West Indian Islands for what they were seeing that England was a good example of metropolitan slave power. Since he was a student of history and economics he did a lot of research and investigated why the Islands had developed in that way or not being developed at all. He had then come to finding out the truth about the abolition of slavery. After spending five years in Oxford, thinking about the political and economical conditions of the British West Indies, especially with the thought of the relationship in how the metropolitan slave powers handled