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Palisadoes Airport

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Section of the Palisadoes Airport showing a building at ground level, the control tower, and an airplane and small truck on the runway.

Palisadoes Airport

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Section of the Palisadoes Airport showing staircase leading to the gallery where some men are standing, the control tower and departure area.

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.

Manley talking to dock workers

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Norman Manley on platform with arm outstretched, talking to dock workers.

Ritual Decapitation: Ashanti and Guyana

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An illustration depicting white men posing with the decapitated heads of rebels of the 1823 Demerara Rebellion - It being a ritual copied from West African warriors and African American slave rebels.

A Coromantee free negro ranger in Guyana about 1775

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An artist's impression of a Coromantee Free African ranger in Guyana about 1775 armed with weapons.

Hall of Healing

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Nurses preparing beds in a hospital ward.

Lititz, the first primary (elementary) school in Jamaica

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Exterior view and grounds of Lititz, the first primary school in Jamaica.

Skirmish near Mahaica Fort, Demerara, August 19, 1823

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A depiction of slaves (rebels) forcing the retreat of European soldiers near Mahaica Fort in Demerara, Guyana, during the Demerara Rebellion of 1823.