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Description:The Slave BookThe Dark Side of American SlaveryTorture as a Tool of Control and as a Form of EntertainmentThe Book all Americans should ReadFrom the The Anti-Slavery Examiner and The American Anti-Slavery Society'Shocking, Shameful, Brutal, Cruel, Savage...A difficult book to read.''The Truth, the gruesome reality.''The ultimate American tragedy.....''Only a few generations ago...'Burned him to DeathIn Goochland County, Virginia, an overseer tied a slave to a tree, flogged him again and again with great severity, then piled brush around him, set it on fire, and burned him to death. The overseer was tried and imprisoned. The whole transaction may be found on the records of the court.Nakedness and Shame"I have seen men and women at work in the field more than half naked: and more than once in passing, when the overseer was not near, they would stop and draw round them a tattered coat or some ribbons of a skirt to hide their nakedness and shame from the stranger's eye."Agonizing Cries"Mrs. Barr, wife of Rev. H. Barr of Carrollton, Illinois, formerly from Courtland, Alabama, told me last spring, that she has very often stopped her ears that she might not hear the screams of slaves who were under the lash, and that sometimes she has left her house, and retired to a place more distant, in order to get away from their agonizing cries."I have often seen groups of slaves on the public squares in Huntsville, who were to be sold at auction, and I have often seen their tears gush forth and their countenances distorted with anguish. A considerable number were generally sold publicly every month.Shockingly Cruel Punishment"My informant further says, that in the spring of 1819, he steered a boat from Louisville to New Orleans. Whilst stopping at a plantation on the east bank of the Mississippi, between Natchez and New Orleans, for the purpose of making sale of some of the articles with which the boat was freighted, he and his fellow boatmen saw a shockingly cruel punishment inflicted on a couple of slaves for the repeated offence of running away. Straw was spread over the whole of their backs, and, after being fastened by a band of the same material, was ignited, and left to burn, until entirely consumed. The agonies and screams of the sufferers he can never forget."Climax of Horror - Delivered of a Dead Infant"An honorable friend, who stands high in the state and in the nation, was present at the burial of a female slave in Mississippi, who had been whipped to death at the stake by her master, because she was gone longer of an errand to the neighboring town than her master thought necessary. Under the lash she protested that she was ill, and was obliged to rest in the fields. To complete the climax of horror, she was delivered of a dead infant while undergoing the punishment."TorturesFloggings, Brandings, Maimings, Gun-Shot Wounds, Lack of food, Whipping Posts, Constables, Savage and Brutal Patrols, Paddle-torturing, Cat-hauling, Burnings with Hot Irons, Murder with Impunity, Iron Collars, Yokes, Clogs, and BellsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dark Side of American Slavery: Torture as a Tool of Control. To get started finding The Dark Side of American Slavery: Torture as a Tool of Control, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 166

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1512002992

Description: The Slave BookThe Dark Side of American SlaveryTorture as a Tool of Control and as a Form of EntertainmentThe Book all Americans should ReadFrom the The Anti-Slavery Examiner and The American Anti-Slavery Society'Shocking, Shameful, Brutal, Cruel, Savage...A difficult book to read.''The Truth, the gruesome reality.''The ultimate American tragedy.....''Only a few generations ago...'Burned him to DeathIn Goochland County, Virginia, an overseer tied a slave to a tree, flogged him again and again with great severity, then piled brush around him, set it on fire, and burned him to death. The overseer was tried and imprisoned. The whole transaction may be found on the records of the court.Nakedness and Shame"I have seen men and women at work in the field more than half naked: and more than once in passing, when the overseer was not near, they would stop and draw round them a tattered coat or some ribbons of a skirt to hide their nakedness and shame from the stranger's eye."Agonizing Cries"Mrs. Barr, wife of Rev. H. Barr of Carrollton, Illinois, formerly from Courtland, Alabama, told me last spring, that she has very often stopped her ears that she might not hear the screams of slaves who were under the lash, and that sometimes she has left her house, and retired to a place more distant, in order to get away from their agonizing cries."I have often seen groups of slaves on the public squares in Huntsville, who were to be sold at auction, and I have often seen their tears gush forth and their countenances distorted with anguish. A considerable number were generally sold publicly every month.Shockingly Cruel Punishment"My informant further says, that in the spring of 1819, he steered a boat from Louisville to New Orleans. Whilst stopping at a plantation on the east bank of the Mississippi, between Natchez and New Orleans, for the purpose of making sale of some of the articles with which the boat was freighted, he and his fellow boatmen saw a shockingly cruel punishment inflicted on a couple of slaves for the repeated offence of running away. Straw was spread over the whole of their backs, and, after being fastened by a band of the same material, was ignited, and left to burn, until entirely consumed. The agonies and screams of the sufferers he can never forget."Climax of Horror - Delivered of a Dead Infant"An honorable friend, who stands high in the state and in the nation, was present at the burial of a female slave in Mississippi, who had been whipped to death at the stake by her master, because she was gone longer of an errand to the neighboring town than her master thought necessary. Under the lash she protested that she was ill, and was obliged to rest in the fields. To complete the climax of horror, she was delivered of a dead infant while undergoing the punishment."TorturesFloggings, Brandings, Maimings, Gun-Shot Wounds, Lack of food, Whipping Posts, Constables, Savage and Brutal Patrols, Paddle-torturing, Cat-hauling, Burnings with Hot Irons, Murder with Impunity, Iron Collars, Yokes, Clogs, and BellsWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Dark Side of American Slavery: Torture as a Tool of Control. To get started finding The Dark Side of American Slavery: Torture as a Tool of Control, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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