MyStory YourStory WeStory “Extended Version” Part 2
1791: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the Haitian revolution- the only successful slave revolt in human history 1793: British retake Tobago. 1797: British conquest of Trinidad; Picton becomes first British governor. 1805: Spanish (and French) naval power broken at Trafalgar: British possessions in West Indies secure. 1806: Chinese indentures come in, but most of them die out. 1807: British Parliament unilaterally declares the abolition of the Transatlantic slave trade. 1808: Great Fire razes Port of Spain. 1813: Our first great artist Michel Jean Cazabon born 1816: Demobilized Africans who…
