How did the migration of the Caribbean people to the U. S. impacted the Caribbean Society

The significant growth of the Caribbean community in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century is easily explained by the growing economic difficulties and disenchantment in the British West Indies and the simultaneous expansion of the United States economy with its relatively high and rising wages. employment opportunities ...

The British Caribbean experienced a catastrophic decline in its sugar industry. The British colonies found themselves unable to compete against cane sugar from Cuba and Brazil and against the sugar beet produced in Europe.

Barbados' ruling class managed to break the fall of the Sugar King on that island, but it did so, on the back of the black Barbadians by instituting a system of exploitation without mercy. The death rate, especially infant mortality, soared on these islands. Malnutrition was a commonplace, and outright starvation was not unknown.

The seriousness of the situation was aggravated by a series of natural disasters that contributed to the emigration. Hurricanes, floods and droughts affected the islands with unusual frequency and intensity between 1880 and 1920.