What foods did the British bring to Trinidad and Tobago?

What foods did the British bring to Trinidad and Tobago?

Indians arrived on the island with their traditional spices and foods, which, once incorporated, altered the local cuisine even further. The most significant spice was curry. Like stews, any type of meat can be curried and is eaten mostly with roti in their many variations (paratha, dhalphourie, dosti).

What did the indentured Labourers bring to Trinidad?

The indentured labourers brought not only their religion, food and clothing, but also the names of the places from which they came. They gave to the places they settled in Trinidad, the place names with which they were familiar.

Why did the British come to Trinidad and Tobago?

By 1797, when Britain seized the island from Spain, Trinidad had begun its development as a plantation economy and a slave society. Trinidad was formally ceded to Britain in 1802. Tobago, also sighted by Columbus in 1498, did not have any permanent European settlement until the 18th century.

When did East Indian came to Trinidad?

May 1845
Indian Arrival Day, celebrated on 30th May, commemorates the arrival of the first Indian Indentured labourers from India to Trinidad, in May 1845, on the ship Fatel Razack.

What did the Spaniards bring to Trinidad and Tobago?

Few Spaniards immigrated to Trinidad; only a handful of African slaves were imported; and there was little production or export. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, tobacco and, later, cacao were cultivated, using Trinidadian Indian labour, but after a disastrous failure of the cacao crop in the 1720s, the industry declined.

When did people of African descent come to Trinidad?

Roots and Routes The National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago invites you to follow the various journeys through which people of African descent – enslaved, liberated, or free, came to Trinidad and Tobago, during the 17th to 19th centuries.

Where did the barrancoids settle in Trinidad and Tobago?

After 250 CE a third group, called the Barrancoid people settled in southern Trinidad and Tobago after migrating up the Orinoco River toward the sea. The oldest Barrancoid settlement appears to have been at Erin, on the south coast.

When did Trinidad and Tobago stop producing sugar?

Tobago’s sugar production peaked in the 1790s but began an irreversible decline after 1807. Tobago was ceded to Britain for the last time in 1814, but by then its importance as a sugar-exporting colony had already begun to wane. Tobago had its own bicameral legislature until 1874.