Between the cracks: Community formation in post-emancipation Tobago - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Between the cracks: Community formation in post-emancipation Tobago - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

The years after the termination of enslavement presented several challenges to the newly freed population, whose members were anxious to assert their freedom. However, the island’s ruling class had other plans. In the first instance, the organisation of the island’s administration remained exactly as it was in the era before 1838, and no preparation was made to allocate resources to the free people to enable them to assert their freedom. Secondl…