INDIAN CARIBBEAN MUSEUM

With the abolition of slavery, British planters in the Caribbean were in dire need of cheap, malleable labor. As a result, the British imported their labor from India. Between 1845 and 1917 about 100,000 workers arrived in Trinidad. The first ship, Fatel Rozack, carried 217 Indians who arrived in late May and were quarantined on Nelson Island. This museum is dedicated to the history of these immigrants, whose descendants make up a large part of the island's population.