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- Collection: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Spatula
Photograph of a carved wooden spoon used to stir food. It was produced by people in the runaway slave communities of Suriname. Craft work such as this spatula was a form of resistance to slavery.
Leg-irons
Photograph of a set of leg-irons that were once used to restrain captives and to stop them from escaping. Being put in leg-irons was also punishment on plantations.
Orange Valley, Slave Hospital
Ruins of the Orange Valley Slave Hospital in the parish of Trelawny, Jamaica.
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Homeless child
A young boys sleeps on a slab of concrete near the NCB Towers off Oxford Road in St. Andrew.