The West India Interest lobbied on behalf of the Caribbean sugar trade in Britain during the late eighteenth century.
The agents, who lobbied to protect the interests of plantation owners, were often members of the British Parliament.
[2] Lillian Penson identified three distinct interest groups in London, who decided to work together: agents from the West Indian colonies, merchants who traded with the colonies and plantation owners who lived in London.
Other factors that undermined the group's influence included the rise of the anti-slavery Whig Party and the passing of the Great Reform Act 1832.
[4] They blamed abolitionists for their increasing economic problems and lobbied for "compensation" until the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was passed.