6 ATLASES
History of Trinidad and Tobago in maps
Trinidad and Tobago as it appears in 6 interactive history atlases, from 1750 to 2015: Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago. Each era below lists who ruled the land and when control changed, linked to the dated map that shows it.
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What was Trinidad and Tobago before it was Trinidad and Tobago? The sections below follow this land through every era covered by the Maps of History atlases: who ruled it, what it was called, and when control changed. Each line links to the dated map. Modern borders serve as an approximation, as each atlas says on the map itself.
Trinidad and Tobago · Industrial Revolution
| Colony or dependency — the opening position |
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Trinidad and Tobago · Age of Revolutions
| Colonial possessions — the opening position | |
| Britain & its empire |
AGE OF REVOLUTIONS: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Trinidad & Tobago · Haiti and Kenya independence
Britain seized Trinidad from Spain in 1797. It became a late sugar colony, worked by enslaved Africans and, after abolition, by indentured laborers from India. Eric Williams, its first prime minister, had written Capitalism and Slavery (1944), a classic argument about the profits of the Caribbean system. Trinidad and Tobago became independent on 31 August 1962.
| Under colonial rule — the opening position | |
| Other states and societies |
HAITI AND KENYA INDEPENDENCE: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Trinidad and Tobago · WWI
| Entente-aligned & imperial territories — the opening position |
Trinidad and Tobago · Cold War
| NATO & core Western allies — the opening position | |
| Non-aligned & neutral |
COLD WAR: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
Trinidad and Tobago · Feminism and the Tunisian Revolution
| Authoritarian, one-party or colonial rule — the opening position | |
| No reform yet / outside this story | |
| Partial or unequal; treaty signed only; transition |
FEMINISM AND THE TUNISIAN REVOLUTION: EVERY CHAPTER AND MAP →
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