Many years ago avid book collector and Emeritus Professor of Africana studies Tony Martin picked up a book by George F Warner cheaply as it was at the end of its print run, but it took him years to discover that the book contained what he now describes as “startling pieces of new information,” one being that the first East Indian immigrant came to the Caribbean in 1595, not 1838.
“This is one of the startling new facts that I have discovered researching this book,” Professor Martin told the Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
According to Warner’s book titled The Voyage of Robert Dudley, 1899 and which was reprinted in 1967, the first Indian arrived in Trinidad in February, 1595 in a very unlikely manner, and according to the
