A neglected island transformed overnight by the immigration decree of 1783.
Captured by Abercromby's British force in February 1797; formally ceded in 1802.
Opens with the 1783 cédula de población that transformed neglected Spanish Trinidad on the eve of British conquest.
Broad Caribbean context for late Spanish Trinidad (not Trinidad-specific).
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