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Trinidad (British)

Britain's last great Caribbean prize of the century.

Formally ceded by Spain at Amiens, 1802.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Trinidad (British) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1797 · 1873 · 1934.

Further reading

• A History of Modern Trinidad, 1783–1962 Bridget Brereton · 1981

  The standard history of Trinidad from the 1797 British capture and 1802 cession onward.

• From Columbus to Castro Eric Williams · 1970

  Williams (himself Trinidadian) gives the broad Caribbean arc into which British Trinidad fits.

• A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul · 1961 · fiction

  The defining Trinidadian novel, following an Indo-Trinidadian family from the 1900s to the 1950s, entirely within British colonial Trinidad.

Sources

• History of Trinidad and Tobago — Wikipedia (British period)