Little Tobago
Artwork by Joan Giummo
First there was Trinidad, the big island, sweltering, teeming, dangerous. You could get lost forever at the market on Frederick Street in Port-of-Spain, a warren of stalls. There, Black Caribbeans, the descendants of slaves, and Indo-Caribbeans, coming from the subcontinent as indentured servants to work the sugar cane after emanci…