Hi, David Ronevich here.

Today is the last installment of our special series,

The Legacy of Penryn Castle.

If you haven't heard the first two episodes, you should start there.

I want you to get the full picture from the story.

This episode is also narrated by our producer Brenna Daldorf,

who reported this story.

But first, just a warning. This podcast is about a

grim part of our past that still affects our present, and this particular episode contains references

to suicide. Penrhyn Castle is a place of opulence, of intricate carvings of heavy furniture and thick fabrics,

of paintings in gilded frames. A lot of the paintings show the male members of the family that

owned the castle, the penance gazing out at those below. But there are three paintings that stand

out that hint at the story of where the family made so much of their money.

The first two show Jamaica.

What you see here is such an artificial image of what plantation knife was like.

The third painting shows something we've only alluded to so far.

This is a painting of the Penrhyns Lake Quarries by Henry Hawkins,

and it was done in 1832.

It's a really striking depiction in a place that otherwise gives you very little information

about where the money came from,

what was going on just a couple of miles down the road.

Today we find out about the pennant quarry and how money made using slavery in Jamaica

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