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Sorting coffee at the Coffee Company of Jamaica

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Coffee beans being sorted by employees at the Coffee Company of Jamaica.

Soohih School - Melani and Washington Chen

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Melani and Washington Chen, ballet dancers from the Soohih School of Dance, directed by Madame May Soohih.

Sonny Bradshaw's band

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Cecil "Sonny" Bradshaw and his band members playing their musical instruments.

Soldering cans at the metal box

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Metals being joined together at a metal factory in Jamaica.

Sold into slavery

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Men, women and children being sold into slavery at a slave auction.

'Snowball' cart, Kingston, Jamaica B.W.I.

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Jamaican postcard of a snow cone cart with bottles of flavoured syrups. The snow cone vendor, students and a young man are standing by the cart.

Small village with occupants

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East Indian villagers standing in village, near huts with thatched roofs.

Small style Jamaican house

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A family of three stands on the porch of colonial main house in Jamaica [right] and a domestic worker is standing before another smaller building to the left.

Slight sketch of Caledonia Pen, parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica - quarters of 84th detacht. in 1835

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Living quarters in the hills of Caledonia Pen, Westmoreland, for the 84th detachment of the West India Regiment. In the lower left foreground, women are laundry and to the right two men can be seen tending to donkeys and a horse.

Slaves being rowed to ships waiting off the coast of Africa

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Enslaved Africans being taken to ships in boats.