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'''Derby's dose''' was a form of [[torture]] used in [[Jamaica]] to punish [[slavery|slaves]] who attempted to escape. According to [[Malcolm Gladwell]] in his 2008 book [[Outliers (book)|Outliers]], "The runaway would be beaten, and salt pickle, lime juice, and bird pepper would be rubbed into his or her open wounds. Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for four to five hours."<ref name=Gladwell>{{cite book |last=Gladwell |first=Malcolm |authorlink=Malcolm Gladwell |year=2008 |title=[[Outliers (book)|Outliers: The Story of Success]] |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |page=282 |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0-316-01792-3}}</ref> The punishment was invented by WilliamThomas Thistlewood, a [[plantation]] owner, and named for the slave, Derby, who was made to [[defecation|defecate]] on the victim.<ref name=race>{{cite book |last1=Tate |first1=Thad W. |last2=Jordan |first2=Winthrop D. |last3=Skemp |first3=Sheila L. |year=1987 |title=Race and Family in the Colonial South: Essays |publisher=University Press of Mississippi |page=74 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=y9F2AAAAMAAJ&q=%22derby%27s+dose%22&dq=%22derby%27s+dose%22&ei=3D-iSbG4PIuiyAS4kIyMAg&client=firefox-a&pgis=1 |accessdate=February 23, 2009}}</ref>