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  • Tags: Slavery - Jamaica

Slave cell at 'Geddes', St. Ann

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"Two holes at back for coons to be thrust through and chained to a bard embedded in the masonry."

An iron gibbet on which rebellious slaves awaited a slow and painful death

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An iron gibbet, used to punish and torture rebellious slaves to death, on display at the Museum of the Institute of Jamaica.