According to a report, Trinidad was populated by peaceful people, by 1510 slavery began to supply pearl fisheries in nearby Isla Margarita. Reportedly, from 1592 the island was administered by Spain but there were colonisation attempts by the uk, France and the Netherlands. According to the report, following a uk invasion in 1763 Spain ceded the island without a fight which became a british colony.
Reportedly, under uk control, Trinidad’s development as a plantation economy and slave society brought commercial success, and in 1783 a decree offering generous land and tax incentives to colonisers transformed the population.