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A chilling reminder of Cape Verde's colonial slave economy, this pillory in the town square of Ribeira Grande, an abandoned colonial city now the village of Cidade Velha, was used to publicly punish slaves.

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Title
Pillory of Justice
Creator
Baxter, David
Date
1980
Other Identifiers
Local: MSS-0079-b10-f03-229
Keyword
pillory ; slave trade ; ruins
Geographic Coverage
Ribeira Grande de Santiago
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David Baxter papers: Cape Verde photographs
Usage Statement
This object from the David Baxter papers, housed by the Rhode Island College Special Collections, and any of its digital surrogates are the intellectual property of Rhode Island College. This digital object is protected by copyright and/or related rights. The digital material presented here is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. This content can be used, shared, or adapted for educational and scholarly purposes. For permissions to use this item please contact digitalcollections@ric.edu. All uses must include appropriate attribution
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