Trinidad Plantation Owners


This photograph shows a quintessential image of European plantation owners on their tropical plantation in Trinidad. Despite their relative wealth to much of the island's population, the era of easy money had long gone and plantation owners often struggled to make ends meet with dependence upon cash crops and at the mercy of international commodity price fluctuations. Picture courtesy of the The Caribbean Photo Archive


Trinidad and Tobago


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by Stephen Luscombe