Published on and written by Cyril Jarnias
Trinidad and Tobago is renowned as a vibrant small island nation, fueled by carnival, calypso, and oil. But behind the image of perpetual festivity lies a history of astonishing density, marked by successive waves of peoples from South America, Europe, Africa, India, and Asia; by colonial violence, slavery, indentureship; and later by a stubborn quest for political autonomy. To trace the history of the country in Trinidad and Tobago is to understand how, in a few centuries, a territory that was nearly empty within the Spanish empire became one of the most diverse nations in the world, with a unique political, cultural, and economic life in the Caribbean.
From First Inhabitants to the Beginnings of Colonization
Long before the arrival of Europeans, Trinidad and Tobago was already a crossroads. Trinidad, long connected to the South American mainland, received groups of Amerindians from present-day Venezuela, who crossed the Gulf of Paria by canoe. Archaeologists have identified over 300 sites across the country, some among the oldest in the entire Caribbean.
Banwari Trace and Pre-Columbian Cultures
The site of Banwari Trace, in southwestern Trinidad, has become iconic. Dated to around 5000 BCE, it is considered the oldest archaeological site in the eastern Caribbean. The skeleton nicknamed “Banwari Man”—later identified as a woman—between 6,000 and 7,000 years old, was discovered there. This site testifies to the occupation of Archaic groups, sometimes called Ortoiroid, who did not use pottery and lived mainly by hunting, fishing, and gathering.
From about 250 BCE onward, several cultural traditions succeeded one another in the islands. The Saladoid people, coming from the Orinoco, settled first, leaving behind decorated pottery that testifies to regional exchanges. They were followed by the Barrancoid and Guayabitoid traditions, concentrated in southern Trinidad, and then by the Mayoid tradition from around 1300 CE.
On the eve of European conquest, the territory was not homogeneous: Trinidad was home to groups speaking Arawakan or Cariban languages—such as the Nepoya, Shebaya, and Yao—while Tobago was dominated by Island Caribs. Population estimates vary, with some figures reaching up to 200,000 inhabitants for all of Trinidad towards the end of the 15th century, before disease, slavery, and warfare caused a massive demographic collapse.
First European Contacts and Spanish Settlement
Christopher Columbus reached Trinidad in 1498, during his third voyage. He only passed through, but the Spanish crown immediately claimed the island. Tobago was also sighted, but no landing was made. Throughout the 16th century, Spain made sporadic attempts to establish a stronger presence in Trinidad, with Antonio de Sedeño in the early 1530s or Juan Troche Ponce de León in the 1560s, but the attempts failed due to indigenous resistance and lack of resources.
Number of Spanish settlers present on the island in 1625, surrounded by a still predominantly Amerindian population.
Spanish control relied heavily on the encomienda system, a form of forced labor imposed on indigenous peoples. At the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries, missions entrusted to Catalan Capuchins, such as Santa Rosa de Arima or the missions of Savonetta, Guayri, and Savana Grande, sought to settle and Christianize the local populations. Tension exploded during the Arena uprising in 1699: Amerindians from the San Rafael encomienda killed Governor José de León y Echales and several priests before being massacred by the Spanish retaliation. By the end of the 18th century, the combination of war, the slave trade, and disease had virtually wiped out the original peoples of Trinidad; today, the only officially recognized indigenous community is the Santa Rosa First Peoples Community in Arima, heir to this history.
Tobago: A Coveted and Unstable Island
While Trinidad languished on the periphery of the Spanish empire, Tobago became a focal point of conflict between European powers. From the 1620s-1630s onward, the Dutch, English, and even Courlanders (from present-day Latvia) attempted to establish sugar colonies there. Forts and trading posts succeeded one another near present-day Plymouth or Great Courland Bay. By the mid-17th century, the island had about 1,500 Europeans and 7,000 enslaved Africans working on over one hundred plantations.
Between British attacks, Dutch reconquests, and French offensives, the island of Tobago changed hands 31 times before being definitively ceded to Britain in 1814. Naval wars left behind shipwrecks, such as those in Rockley Bay studied by underwater archaeology.
From Marginal Colony to Colonial Laboratory
At the end of the 18th century, Trinidad made a decisive turn. Spain, unable to effectively populate its territory, decided to widely open its doors to foreign settlers through an encouraged immigration policy.
The Cédula of Population and the Arrival of French Planters
In 1783, King Charles III signed a Cédula of Population that revolutionized Trinidad’s demographics. This document promised free land and a ten-year tax exemption to all foreign Catholics—particularly French planters from neighboring islands—on condition they swore allegiance to the Spanish crown. Each free person received about thirty acres (roughly 13 hectares), with the acreage increasing with the number of enslaved people they brought. Notably, “free colored people” also benefited from land grants, though smaller.
By the late 18th century, an immigration policy implemented by French authorities attracted a significant influx of settlers, enslaved Africans, and free colored people from islands like Martinique, Guadeloupe, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Dominica. These populations settled in areas such as Paramin, Blanchisseuse, Cascade, and Laventille, which still retain a strong French-speaking imprint today. This immigration led to spectacular demographic growth: Trinidad’s population rose from about 1,400 inhabitants in 1777 to over 15,000 soon after 1783, reaching nearly 18,000 just before the British conquest of the island.
Driven by this immigration, the economy changed scale. By the end of the century, the island had about 159 sugar plantations, but also many coffee, cocoa, and cotton estates. In 1797, there were 10,009 enslaved Africans for just over 2,000 Whites and nearly 4,500 free colored people. Trinidad thus took on the appearance of a French-speaking plantation colony, although still formally under the Spanish flag.
British Conquest and Transformation of the Colonial Order
In 1797, a British squadron commanded by Sir Ralph Abercromby entered through the Bocas del Dragón and anchored at Chaguaramas. The Spanish governor José María Chacón, outmatched and aware of his fragile position, surrendered without a fight. Trinidad then shifted under British domination, a status confirmed in 1802 by the Treaty of Amiens.
The new colonial power temporarily kept Spanish law and tolerated the French language, given the large Francophone white and free colored population. But it gradually introduced its own administrative apparatus. The first British governor, Thomas Picton, became infamous for his brutal methods—especially towards the enslaved—to the point of being brought to justice in London.
Thomas Picton, first British governor
In contrast, Tobago had already been under British orbit since the 1760s, although the island was briefly French in the early 1780s. It operated with its own bicameral parliament and developed a classic sugar economy, entirely based on slave labor, governed by the Slave Act of 1775.
Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance
On both islands, the period 1800–1838 corresponds to the zenith and then the decline of the slave system. In Trinidad, the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade by the British Parliament in 1807 did not prevent intercolonial trafficking: between 1808 and 1825, about 6,000 additional enslaved people were imported there from other British possessions.
Total number of enslaved people recorded in the islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the early 19th century, according to registers imposed by British authorities.
Faced with this order, resistance took multiple forms: marronage (running away), poisonings, work slowdowns, preservation of religious and cultural practices, and even armed revolts. Tobago experienced a series of uprisings in the 18th and early 19th centuries; Trinidad saw a mutiny erupt in 1837 at the St. Joseph barracks, led by Daaga, an African forcibly enlisted in the local regiment, who was ultimately executed after the suppression.
The general abolition of slavery, passed in 1833, came into effect in 1834 but was accompanied by an “apprenticeship” system: the formerly enslaved remained legally tied to the plantations for several years. Under pressure from mobilizations, particularly in Trinidad where the freed chanted “No six years” as early as 1834, this regime was abolished earlier than planned. On August 1, 1838, full and complete freedom was proclaimed; in Trinidad, just over 17,000 people emerged from slavery, compared to over 16,000 in Tobago. The planters, meanwhile, received substantial compensation paid by London, while the newly freed obtained neither land nor compensation.
Indentureship, Migrations, and Demographic Recomposition
Emancipation shattered the plantation economy as it had functioned until then. In Trinidad as in Tobago, some of the formerly enslaved left the estates, turned away from sugarcane, practiced subsistence farming, or sought urban work. For the landowners, the dread of “labor shortage” led them to experiment with other forms of forced labor.
The “Merikins” and African Veterans
Even before abolition, the colony became a laboratory for the settlement of free Black communities. During the War of 1812, the British navy recruited African-American enslaved people by promising their freedom. After the conflict, more than 700 of them, with their families, were settled in southern Trinidad between 1815 and 1816. Nicknamed “Merikins,” they received sixteen-acre plots in villages still bearing the names of their old military companies. They developed peasant agriculture there and contributed to the establishment of the Baptist faith.
After their demobilization, soldiers of the West India Regiments, Black colonial units of the British Army, received land, notably in Eastern Trinidad (at Quare, Turure, Manzanilla). Some of these veterans were Muslim and introduced Islamic practices to the region, long before the mass arrival of Muslim Indians in the 19th century.
Indian Indentureship: A “New Slavery”?
But it was especially from 1845 onward that the social landscape of Trinidad was profoundly transformed with the arrival of Indians under indenture contracts. On May 30, 1845, the ship Fatel Razack docked at Port of Spain with 225 laborers from British India. It was only the first of a long series: until 1917, between 140,000 and nearly 150,000 Indians would be landed in Trinidad under the indenture system, used throughout the British Empire after the abolition of the slave trade.
would later speak of a “new system of slavery” to describe indentureship.
Historian Hugh Tinker
The travel conditions were often dramatic. The journey lasted about three months, shorter after the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, but overcrowding and poor hygiene fostered cholera, typhoid, dysentery, and measles. Upon arrival, the indentured laborers were placed in quarantine on Nelson Island, off Port of Spain, before being distributed to the estates. The contract stipulated a 45-hour workweek, but during cane harvesting season, nine-hour days, six days a week, were the norm.
Percentage of Indian indentured laborers who chose to remain permanently in Trinidad rather than return to India.
Other Migrations: Chinese, Portuguese, Syrians, Venezuelans
In the search for “free” labor, authorities and planters also tested other sources. Irish, English, German, and Madeiran laborers were imported, but many quickly switched to commerce or left the plantations, deemed too arduous. Chinese arrived as early as 1806 and again in the mid-19th century, initially for agriculture, before turning en masse to small urban commerce. Portuguese from Madeira followed a comparable path. Later, Syrians and Lebanese, then Venezuelans—the “Cocoa Panyols,” often of mixed Spanish, African, and indigenous descent—settled mainly in the cocoa economy.
This mixing produced, by the end of the 19th century, a society of great diversity: Afro-Trinidadians, Indo-Trinidadians, “French Creoles” of European origin, Chinese, Portuguese, Levantines, Venezuelans, all complemented by people of mixed heritage of all possible combinations. According to the 2011 census, about 35.4% of the population declared Indian origin, 34.2% African origin, and over 22% as “Mixed,” with specific categories like Dougla (Indo-African mix).
Colonial Union, Social Struggles, and the Birth of a Nation
If Trinidad stood out for its rapid development in the 19th century, Tobago followed a more chaotic trajectory. Ruined by sugar competition and hurricanes, the island sank into a deep crisis that led to its placement under administration.
From Crown Colony to Unified Colony
After emancipation in 1838, Tobago’s sugar economy collapsed. Planters adopted metayage (sharecropping) as early as 1843, transforming former enslaved people into peasants sharing the harvest in exchange for land use, but the model remained fragile. The Belmanna uprising in 1876, a riot on the Roxborough plantation following the death of a policeman, symbolized social despair. Tobago’s local Assembly eventually voted for its own dissolution, and the island became a Crown Colony in 1877.
In 1889, the British government merged the colonies of Trinidad and Tobago to reduce costs, following an 1887 Act. Tobago was quickly downgraded to a mere administrative ward, a colonial hierarchy that would durably mark relations between the two islands.
In Trinidad, the political regime remained that of a Crown Colony: no elected assembly, but a Legislative Council composed of officials and a few unofficial members appointed by the governor. It wasn’t until 1925 that seven elected seats, out of thirteen, appeared. Suffrage remained censitary and limited by sex, property, and education level.
Birth of the Labor Movement and Social Unrest
The early 20th century was marked by crises that signaled the growing politicization of society. In 1903, an increase in water rates ignited tensions in Port of Spain: a demonstration turned into a riot, law enforcement fired on the crowd, killing 18, while the Parliament building, the Red House, was set on fire.
In 1919, in Trinidad, a dockworkers’ strike, motivated by the high cost of living and stagnant wages in the post-World War I context, escalated into a general strike. Order was restored with the intervention of the British cruiser HMS Calcutta. For historian Brinsley Samaroo, this episode marked an “awakening of class consciousness” in the post-conflict period.
In the 1930s, the Great Depression and the fall of sugar and cocoa prices plunged the economy into turmoil again. A powerful labor movement emerged around figures like Arthur Cipriani, “Buzz” Butler, or Adrian Cola Rienzi. In 1937, riots and strikes in cane fields and oilfields—particularly in southern Trinidad—resulted in several deaths. These struggles led to the creation of structured unions, improvements in wages and working conditions, and, politically, to strengthened demands for broader democratic representation.
Oil, American Bases, and Economic Recomposition
Simultaneously, another silent revolution was taking place: the shift from an agricultural economy to an oil economy. The exploitation of bitumen from the Pitch Lake at La Brea existed since the 17th century—Walter Raleigh is said to have caulked his ships there in 1595—but it was only from the 1860s that real oil wells, like the one at Aripero, were drilled. The first truly commercial well, at Point Fortin, dates to 1907, and 1908 is often cited as the first year of significant oil production.
In the 20th century, the oil industry, with companies like Trinidad Leaseholds Limited, United British Oilfields Trinidad, and BP, established itself at Pointe-à-Pierre, Santa Flora, and Point Fortin. An economic pillar in the 1930s, it became its backbone in the 1950s, with diversification into natural gas and petrochemicals. This wealth helped form a broader urban middle class than elsewhere in the Caribbean.
World War II also reinforced the strategic centrality of Trinidad and Tobago. American military bases were established at Chaguaramas and Cumuto under lease agreements made with London. They brought infrastructure, jobs, and increased contact with the United States, before being dismantled in the early 1960s.
Towards Independence and the Republic
In the postwar period, the shockwave of anti-colonial struggles was felt throughout the Caribbean. Trinidad and Tobago was no exception. The 1945 constitutional reform introduced universal male and female suffrage, applied for the first time in the 1946 elections. Modern political parties emerged.
The Eric Williams Era and the Conquest of Independence
It is in this context that the historian Eric Williams, educated at Oxford, took the lead of a new political movement, the People’s National Movement (PNM), founded in 1956. He argued for inclusive nationalism, economic modernization, and the unity of the two islands. The PNM won the 1956 elections and formed the first “Cabinet”-style government in the colony, with Eric Williams as government leader.
Trinidad and Tobago joined the West Indies Federation in 1958, an embryonic unitary Caribbean state. But Jamaica’s withdrawal in 1961 torpedoed the project. Williams refused for Trinidad and Tobago to bear the financial burden of an amputated federation alone and chose the path of national independence.
An independence conference was held in London in 1962. The British Parliament passed the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act, which received royal assent on August 1. On August 31, 1962, at midnight, the British flag was lowered and the new red, black, and white flag was raised. The country became independent within the Commonwealth, with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, represented by a Governor-General, Sir Solomon Hochoy. Eric Williams became the first Prime Minister, while the main opposition party, the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), was led by Rudranath Capildeo, an Indo-Trinidadian mathematician.
The independence ceremonies were lavish: the Princess Royal represented the British sovereign, a new pledge of allegiance was sworn, a national anthem and coat of arms were adopted, the latter designed by artist Carlisle Chang. This coat of arms would later be modified to feature the steelpan, the national instrument, in place of Christopher Columbus’s caravels, a sign of the will to critically re-read the colonial past.
The Republic, Black Power, and Political Turmoil
During the 1960s, the PNM dominated political life. Williams remained in power, winning the elections of 1966 and 1971 (the latter marked by an opposition boycott). But the country was not spared the shocks of the time: the rise of Black Power, fueled by African-American struggles and criticism of structural racism, reached Trinidad and Tobago. In 1970, the student movement National Joint Action Committee (NJAC) organized mass marches. Inter-ethnic tensions appeared. On April 6, a protester, Basil Davis, was shot dead by police, triggering widespread outcry.
On April 21, 1970, in response to the arrest of Black Power leaders, a mutiny erupted at the Teteron Base led by Raffique Shah and Rex Lassalle. It was quickly crushed with the help of the coast guard and the deterrent presence of American and British warships.
Despite these turbulences, Trinidad and Tobago continued its institutional transformation. In 1976, Parliament adopted a republican constitution. The country ceased to recognize the Queen as head of state, replacing her with a president elected by a college of parliamentarians. The last Governor-General, Ellis Clarke, became the first President of the Republic. The country remained, however, a member of the Commonwealth and retained the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London as its supreme court of appeal.
Islamist Coup Attempt and Party Alternation
After Eric Williams’s death in 1981, the PNM declined. His successor, George Chambers, lost the 1986 elections to a multi-ethnic coalition, the National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR), led by A. N. R. Robinson. For the first time in thirty years, the PNM went into opposition. But internal tensions—particularly between Afro and Indo-Trinidadian components—quickly undermined the NAR.
In July 1990, the Islamist Jamaat al Muslimeen movement, led by Yasin Abu Bakr, attempted a coup unique in the Anglophone Caribbean. Its militants stormed Parliament (the Red House) and the national television station, taking Prime Minister A.N.R. Robinson and several ministers hostage. The violence and looting resulted in 24 deaths. After six days of crisis, the coup plotters surrendered in exchange for a promise of amnesty, later upheld by the courts, an event that still fuels debate on impunity.
Electorally, the 1990s saw successive PNM and UNC (United National Congress) governments, the latter strongly supported by the Indo-Trinidadian electorate. In 1995, a Parliament with no clear majority led to a UNC–NAR alliance that allowed Basdeo Panday to become the country’s first Prime Minister of Indian origin. In 2010, Kamla Persad‑Bissessar, also from the UNC, became the first woman to hold the post. Alternation then returned to the PNM under the leadership of Patrick Manning, then Keith Rowley. Political divisions remain largely structured by ethnic affiliations, although more transversal formations, like the NAR, have sometimes succeeded in transcending them.
Cultural Legacies and Contemporary Challenges
The history of the country in Trinidad and Tobago is not just about changing flags and constitutions. It is also reflected in the landscapes, festivals, languages, and institutions of memory.
The Amerindian, African, and Indian Imprint
Despite the scale of colonial destruction, the legacy of the First Peoples remains visible. First in toponymy: Arima, Arouca, Tacarigua, Chaguanas, Chaguaramas, Mayaro, Paria, Salybia recall indigenous group or place names. Second in the archaeological heritage: Banwari Trace, the Caurita petroglyphs, the sites at Cedros, Erin, Palo Seco, or even the very subsoil of the Red House, where excavations between 2013 and 2015 revealed an ancient indigenous cemetery, occupied for over a thousand years before the European conquest.
The transatlantic slave trade, which brought about 44,000 Africans to the archipelago, left deep marks on society: in music (kaiso, calypso, soca, rapso), in religion (Spiritual Baptist, Orisha), in cuisine (callaloo, pelau), but also in forms of resistance. From Canboulay—a “burnt cane” ritual that became the matrix of the modern carnival—to the 20th-century Black Power movements, and through maroon communities and the Merikins, the affirmation of an Afro-Trinidadian identity has constantly punctuated national history.
Indian indentureship profoundly marked Trinidad, transforming the rural landscape and the sugar cane economy, and enriching local culture. Nearly half of Indo-Trinidadians are Hindu, about 12% Muslim, the others following various Christian or other traditions. Festivals like Diwali and Hosay are now celebrated nationally, and Indian Arrival Day commemorates the arrival of the ship Fatel Razack. This legacy is also manifested in chutney music, toponyms (Calcutta Settlement, Madras Settlement), temples—including the remarkable “Temple in the Sea” built by Siewdass Sadhu at Waterloo—and the architecture of rural mandirs and mosques.
Heritage Institutions and Historical Consciousness
The awareness of this complex history translated, especially since the late 20th century, into the creation of institutions dedicated to safeguarding memory. The National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago, created by a 1991 Act, has the mission to protect natural and built sites of historical importance. It manages an official list of “Properties of Interest” including colonial monuments (Red House, the magnificent “Magnificent Seven” around the Savannah, Fort George, Fort San Andres), natural sites (Pitch Lake, Naparima Hill), religious complexes (Mount St Benedict, Our Lady of Montserrat), and emblematic sites of the memory of slavery and indentureship, like Nelson Island.
The country’s archaeology, initiated by pioneers like R. J. Lechmere Guppy and John Bullbrook, is now carried out by researchers in collaboration with international universities (e.g., Leiden, Florida). A key project, “Resilient Heritage: Trinidad and Tobago,” funded by the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation, now links heritage conservation to climate change adaptation, to address threats like sea-level rise on Port of Spain and the islets in the bay.
To measure the scale of Indian indentureship, archives play a crucial role. The immigrant registers held at the National Archives—whether the major general series (1845‑1917), plantation registers, or ship records—document in detail the origin, age, caste, village, family, and journey of tens of thousands of laborers. They now allow many descendants to reconstruct their family trees and fuel a prolific historiography.
The table below illustrates, for example, the volume of Indian emigration to some colonies between 1842 and 1870:
| Colonial Destination | Indentured Indians (1842‑1870) |
|---|---|
| Mauritius | 351,401 |
| Demerara (British Guiana) | 76,691 |
| Trinidad | 42,519 |
| Jamaica | 15,169 |
| Natal | 6,448 |
| Réunion | 15,005 |
| Other French Colonies | 16,341 |
Trinidad thus ranks among the leading plantation colonies that used indentureship on a large scale, which explains the current demographic weight of the Indian community in the country.
Between Oil Prosperity and Future Challenges
Looking at the present, the history of the country in Trinidad and Tobago also illuminates its economic situation. From the oil of La Brea exploited by Walter Raleigh in the 16th century to the ultramodern gas complexes at Point Lisas, the energy sector has steadily expanded. At the start of the 21st century, the archipelago is the leading producer of oil and natural gas in the Caribbean, the world’s top exporter of ammonia and one of the largest exporters of methanol. According to recent figures, energy accounts for nearly half of state revenue, up to 80% of exports, and about 35 to 45% of GDP, while employing only a small fraction of the workforce.
Oil and gas revenues have allowed the country to have a high standard of living, fund infrastructure, education, and social programs. However, this dependence makes it vulnerable to global price fluctuations, depletion of reserves, and the energy transition. Since the 1990s, the model has primarily shifted from oil to gas, with the development of major infrastructure like Atlantic LNG at Point Fortin, the Phoenix Park Gas Processors complex, and numerous petrochemical plants.
Recent history is marked by tax reforms, partial nationalizations, and then the restructuring of state-owned companies, like the creation in 1993 of Petrotrin through the merger of two state companies, followed later by its profound restructuring. Simultaneously, the country seeks to diversify its economy, notably through financial services, creative industries—with a dedicated state enterprise founded in 2013—and tourism, particularly in Tobago, where hurricanes in the 1960s pushed the abandonment of agriculture as an economic pillar.
Environmental challenges add to these issues. Projections of sea-level rise around Port of Spain—on the order of 40 centimeters by the end of the century—threaten historical infrastructure and densely populated areas. Increasingly intense hurricanes and tropical storms in the Caribbean region remind us of the vulnerability of these small islands. Here again, history serves as a guide: the memory of past disasters helps develop resilience policies, and projects like “Resilient Heritage” link conservation and adaptation.
Conclusion: A Weighty Past, a Narrative in Motion
The history of the country in Trinidad and Tobago resembles a succession of layers: pre-Columbian migrations, hesitant Spanish colonization, Franco-Caribbean explosion under the Cédula of 1783, British conquest, slavery and marronage, abolition, Indian indentureship and other forms of forced labor, colonial union of Trinidad and Tobago, labor struggles, emergence of nationalism, independence, republic, Black Power, aborted coup d’état, and then construction of an oil and gas state anchored in globalization.
Each moment has left its traces. The names of Hyarima, Daaga, Jonas Mohammed Bath, Cipriani, Butler, Eric Williams, Basdeo Panday, or Kamla Persad‑Bissessar refer to very different struggles, but all fit into the same thread: that of a population that, generation after generation, seeks to reclaim a territory and a destiny long dictated from the outside. The archipelago went from a neglected periphery of the Spanish empire to a British plantation colony, then to a sovereign state facing complex development choices.
Number of Africans enslaved in the history of Trinidad and Tobago
To tell this history is therefore to open a permanent construction site: that of a country which, while looking to the future—energy, climate change, new forms of citizenship—can only understand itself by taking the measure of the depth of its roots.
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