Judge Admi, satisfied with Tree’s short drop demonstration of the short drop hanging of the ‘low value’ slaves, approved the hanging of 250 of the slaves. The other 250 would be shipped to the feared Moroccan slave market after being personal selected by the Dutch slave trader A. D. Mihoek.
Those selected to be hanged were taken from their crowded cells and prepared…
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…while others were readied to be shipped to the slave markets…
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Every hour six slaves were brought to the base of the Hill of 100 Crosses and placed three each on two benches. They were noosed…
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...and spent the last moments of their lives pondering if they got the best deal of all the slaves. Some recognized friends from the rebellion writhing on their crosses above them aware that a night or two had passed since the crucified rebel had been taken from her cell. They were aware they would not suffer anywhere near as long.
Then there were their sisters being shipped to Morocco. No one had ever heard of a slave being shipped there ever being seen again.
All the thought of how easy they had it was forgotten when the benches they stood on were kicked away. Even the slaves by their sides were forgotten as they struggled with their individual crisis cause by the rope suspending their bodies and slowly choking the life out of them. They looked at the ground a half-meter beneath their toes and tried to reach it. It may as well been a mile…
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…while looking on from the hill the gamut of emotions ran through the heads of the crucified rebels as they watched the hanged rebels hang limp after a few minutes.
‘Why did they get off easy?’ to ‘My god, they are dead!’
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