The institutionalization of the plantation system along with the regime of colonial mercantilism in the Caribbean gave way to dependent social formations plagued with exploitative and oppressive social relations of production.  Discuss how slavery and colonialism engendered underdeveloped societies in the Caribbean as it ensured the necessary primitive accumulation of capital to fuel European capitalism.

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