This is a history of the author's home, Tobago, one of the Windward
Islands and now part of the nation of Trinidad and Tobago. In the
era of tobacco, indigo and sugar, its fertility was sought after by
Courlanders (Latvians), the Dutch, the French and English. The
cultivation of sugar became supreme and with it the necessity for
slave labour to work the plantations. Beyond their own requirements
there was a demand for slaves by the Spanish settlements and this
the Courlanders and the Dutch were tempted to satisfy. But wars in
Europe had the habit of over-spilling into the Caribbean and Tobago
was not ignored. It constantly changed hands in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries and its fortunes in the times of peace
fluctuated in tune with the price of sugar. This was an unequal
task and Tobago's economy by the mid 1800's had collapsed. A union
with Trinidad was the only salvation and this came about in 1899.
This is a simple story to remind the reader of the rise and fall
of an island of which they may never have heard.
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