The Victorian period of British travel writing in the "tropicalized" world distinguished itself from early nineteenth-century travel writing, particularly due to changing demands for reinventing British control in the post-emancipation period. This article unpacks the textual and visual representations of Negroes and Coolies in nineteenth-century Trinidad in the travelogue of British natural historian Charles Kingsley, highlighting the discursive power of these representations in restabilizing British rule and order in the colony. Kingsley’s rewriting of colonized subjects cannot be disconnected from the redefinition and redeployment of ideas of race and rule across the British Empire, especially in the context of post-emancipation labor shortages, the rise of the Black subject, and colonial anxieties about the "Negro character."
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