Artefact: $150 reward poster This is an Amercian poster advertising a substantial reward for a runaway slave.

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Artefact: 'A Negro hung alive by the Ribs to a Gallows' This engraving shows a man brutally hung up, while still alive, by a hook through his body.

Artefact: 'An Interior View of a Jamaica House of Correction' This is a steel engraving of people being punished in a prison in Jamaica in 1837 when slavery had officially been abolished, but during the period of apprenticeship.

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Artefact: 'A Rebel Negro Armed and on His Guard' This print is from 1796 and was used in John Gabriel Stedman

Artefact: Leonard Parkinson, Captain of the Maroons This is a watercolour of 1796 by H. Smith. It is one of very few images drawn from life of black rebels from the time of the slave trade.

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Artefact: 'Run Away ... Jack' advertisement This advertisement was printed in the 'Jamaica Mercury and Kingston Weekly Advertiser', 1779.

Artefact: 'Toussaint L This etching of Toussaint L

Artefact: 'Trelawney Town, the Chief Residence of the Maroons' The Maroons were communities of escaped slaves who lived in the mountain areas of Jamaica.

Artefact: 'Rosa ordered to be flogged' This wood engraving shows an artist

Artefact: Carved wooden figure This figure is of an enslaved African breaking free of his chains in what may be seen as a symbolic gesture.