Governor Thomas Picton's torture of Louisa Calderon

Drawing used by William Garrow in prosecuting General Picton, from the article by James Epstein, Politics of Colonial Sensation: The Trial of Thomas Picton and the Cause of Louisa Calderon'. Garrow prosecuted General Thomas Picton, who, while serving as the first British governor of Trinidad, ordered that a young free person of coloru, Louisa Calderon, be tortured to get her to confess a crime. Being brought home to face a series of related charges, Picton was eventually tried on the single count of using torture on Louisa Calderon (in 1801) at the Court of King's Bench before Lord Ellenborough

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