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History of Migration

- Trinidad Timeline
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Tobago Timeline
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Emigration from T&T

Ethnic Groups

Africans
- The Slave Trade
- Free Colored
- West African Workers
- Liberated Slaves
- African Repatriation
Americans
- Canadians
- Panama Canal Zone
- Venezuelans
- War of 1812 Veterans
- WW II Service men
- West Indians
Asians
- Chinese
- East Indians
- Lebanese & Syrians
Europeans
- Corsicans
- Courlanders
- Dutch
- English
- French
- Germans
- Irish
- Portuguese
- Scots
- Spanish

Americas

Most of the migration involving the Americas in recent history is that of Trinidadians leaving the islands to seek opportunities in the US and Canada. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries however, people came from South America and other West Indian islands for economic reasons.

 


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