Description: "This fourth volume in the Caribbean Heritage series presents the texts of two short plays, first written in Trinidad in 1832 and 1852-53. The author of Martial Law in Trinidad was E.L. Joseph, an English-born long-time resident of Trinidad, who later published a novel, Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole, and the first history of the island. The author of Past and Present is not known, but may have been G.N. Dessources, a mixed-race Trinidadian who probably wrote Adolphus, a Tale around the same time".
Brief description: Bridget Brereton is emerita professor of history, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her many publications include Race Relations in Colonial Trinidad, 1870-1900, A History of Modern Trinidad, 1783-1962 and (as editor) volume 5 of UNESCO's General History of the Caribbean.