Trinidadian Americans are Americans of Trinidadian and Tobagonian heritage or immigrants born in Trinidad and Tobago who achieve United States citizenship. The largest proportion of Trinidadians live in New York City and in other places such as Maryland, Florida, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. There are 164,778 Trinidadian Americans living in the U.S.
Trinidadian and Tobagonian immigration to the United States, which dates back to the seventeenth...
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Trinidadian Americans are Americans of Trinidadian and Tobagonian heritage or immigrants born in Trinidad and Tobago who achieve United States citizenship. The largest proportion of Trinidadians live in New York City and in other places such as Maryland, Florida, New Jersey, and Massachusetts. There are 164,778 Trinidadian Americans living in the U.S.
Trinidadian and Tobagonian immigration to the United States, which dates back to the seventeenth century, was spasmodic and is best studied in relation to the major waves of Caribbean immigration. The first documented account of black immigration to the United States from the Caribbean dates back to 1619, when a small group of voluntary indentured workers arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, on a Dutch frigate. The immigrants worked as free people until 1629 when a Portuguese vessel arrived with the first shipload of blacks captured off the west coast of Africa. In the 1640s Virginia and other states began instituting laws that took away the...
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