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A settler's house

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Front view of a settler's house with a small vineyard in the front yard. A few children are looking out on the veranda.

A slave being whipped

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A seemingly nude man with hands and feet bound crouches on the ground while being whipped by another man.

A slave family in exaltation on August 1834

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A drawing of elated enslaved Africans after they heard that enslaved persons in the British West Indies would be liberated on August 1, 1834.

A slave ship

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Painting of a European slave ship at sea circa 1780. There is some uncertainty about this image, as the ship flies the blue ensign which was only flown by the Royal Navy and not merchant ships.

A small group at the expedition cross the Rio Grande

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A group of men crossing the Rio Grande, Portland in a boat, during an expedition to Nanny Town (now Moore Town) in the parish of Portland.

A small house in Spanish Town

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View of the front of a small dwelling in Spanish Town, St. Catherine.

A spare time art troupe of a people's commune in Tuilungteching county, Tibet

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"A spare-time art troupe of a people's commune in Tuilungteching county, Tibet, entertains the commune members is photo at right."