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A scene at a market in Kingston. The street is filled with women selling pots, pans, pottery and other items. Many are seen with straw hats or baskets on their heads.

First meeting between Christopher Columbus and Arawak Indian cacique. The cacique is offering Columbus a pineapple.

An impression of a traditional Arawak dwelling with thatched roof made of woven straw and palm leaves and a wall of bamboo.

An abandoned sugar mill tower located at Old Pera in St. Thomas, Jamaica. The mill tower is largely covered by bushes.

Image of an old sugar mill located on the historic Green Castle Estate in St. Mary, Jamaica.

A drawing of the arrival of Christopher Columbus and his men to the island of Jamaica. Natives of the island weilding weapons are fleeing the scene as one of Columbus' men fires shots from a gun.

"This bracelet would be locked onto an enslaved African's wrist to show that they were considered the property of the plantation owner. They were identified with a plantation or an owner either through the branding of their skin with a hot iron or…

"In the 18th century, sugar was sold as a big cone called a 'sugar-loaf'. Sugar nippers were used in the home for breaking chunks off sugar-loaves for use."

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.

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.