Brinsley Samaroo, historian (1940–2023): Delivered as The Brinsley Samaroo Legacy Lecture, keynote in the annual History Fest of the Department of History, UWI, St Augustine, at the Alma Jordan Library, UWI, St Augustine, T&T, 6 March 2024

Abstract

This informal presentation seeks to analyze the late Brinsley Samaroo’s major work as a historian. It discusses his pioneering research and writing on labour and political struggles in Trinidad & Tobago in the last century, and his involvement in research on the indentured Indian Diaspora in that country and in the Caribbean more generally. It also notes his work as a public intellectual and cultural activist.