🇹🇹📊 Trinidad’s First Population Breakdown – A Snapshot from 1797 When Britain took Trinidad in 1797, a census revealed a complex, stratified society of just under 30,000. Most were enslaved Africans. Over 5,000 were free people of colour — larger than the white population, and many of French descent. The Indigenous presence, though diminished, still held space. This snapshot, preserved in colonial records, reveals the racial, cultural, and political layers that shaped the island — from resist