Editing Death by burning (section)

==== West Indies ====
In 1760, the slave rebellion known as [[Tacky's War]] broke out in [[Jamaica]]. Apparently, some of the defeated rebels were burned alive, while others were gibbeted alive, left to die of thirst and starvation.<ref>''Waddell'' (1863), [https://archive.org/details/twentynineyears00waddgoog/page/n30 p. 19]</ref>

In 1774, nine enslaved Africans in [[Tobago]] were found complicit of murdering a white man. Eight of them had first their right arms chopped off, and were then burned alive bound to stakes, according to the report of an eyewitness.<ref>''Blake'' (1857), [https://archive.org/details/historyofslavery1857blak/page/154 pp. 154–155]</ref>

In [[Saint-Domingue]], enslaved Africans found guilty of committing crimes were sometimes punished by being burnt at the stake, particularly if the crime was attempting to foment a slave rebellion.<ref>{{cite book|title=Written in Blood: The Story of the Haitian People, 1492–1995|last1=Heinl|first1=Robert Debs|last2=Heinl|first2=Michael|last3=Heinl|first3=Nancy Gordon|year=2005|orig-year=1996|edition=2nd|publisher=Univ. Press of America|location=Lanham, Md; London|isbn=0761831770|oclc=255618073|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/writteninbloodst00hein}}</ref>