Word: picton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IRISH Picton...
...Trinidad's Governor Thomas Picton applied the torture to a young mulatto girl who had been implicated in a theft. The episode, with a number of other abuses of power, led to a far-reaching scandal and intrigue. Picton's principal opponent was his first commissioner, Colonel William Fullarton, who wanted to create a Trinidad of small multiracial landowners whose basic human rights were assured...