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The Snopes article is misleading. Conditions for POWs at the time were appalling.
by junofan 3y ago
The Snopes article is misleading. Conditions for POWs at the time were appalling.
- eesmith 3y agoHow is the Snopes article misleading? They write "prison conditions were quite deplorable at the time". Appalling and deplorable, yes. But you said they were tortured. If appalling conditions = torture, then nearly all of the captured revolutionary troops were tortured, yes? As well as the captured British POWs held by the Americans? Which would mean both the US and Britain were systemically and institutionally engaged in wholesale torture of white British subjects (or at least people perceived to be British). Which would seem to diminish the severity of the term "torture". Also, Stockton wasn't a POW.
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- eesmith 3y agoFor those downvoting me, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36875273 I point out how the other four signers were NOT tortured and NOT held under appalling or deplorable conditions. The other four - who were POWs - had much better conditions. For example, three were held in St. Augustine under parole, with food, a quarter pint of rum daily, and considerable freedom of movement about the town. This is a far cry from being tortured.