Victorian ideals valued respectability and restraint. One was to be polite and courteous and dutiful, not pushy or overbearing.
The Fabian Society was a group aiming for a moral remaking of Britain according to a socialist model, but they were much more refrained and respectable in their approach than Marxists who sought revolution. Founded in 1883, the Fabian Society sought change by gradual means, not through violence or agitation. They took their name from the Roman general Quintus Fabius <span>Maximus Verrucosus, who was nicknamed "</span><span>Cunctator" ("delayer") for his use of delaying tactics rather than a direct attack in confronting the army of Hannibal in the Second Punic War.</span>
The Europeans in the Caribbean felt the need to bring in enslaved Africans as laborers because the native American Indian workers had become physically weak due to diseases and the Caribbean plantations were in requirement of stronger labor force. The Africans by birth were very strong and they as slaves would perfectly suit the needs of the Caribbean plantations.
