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American slavery was one of the cruelest forms of slavery in recorded history. > A quote from a letter by Isabella Gibbons, who had been enslaved by professors
by istjohn 3y ago
American slavery was one of the cruelest forms of slavery in recorded history.
> A quote from a letter by Isabella Gibbons, who had been enslaved by professors at the University of Virginia, is now engraved on the university's Memorial to Enslaved Laborers:
>> Can we forget the crack of the whip, the cowhide, whipping-post, the auction-block, the spaniels, the iron collar, the negro-trader tearing the young child from its mother’s breast as a whelp from the lioness? Have we forgotten that by those horrible cruelties, hundreds of our race have been killed? No, we have not, nor ever will.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_United_States https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_of_slaves_in_the_U...
- polski-g 3y agoMediterranean oar slaves sound like they had it worse: force to row every day in the sun until your skin burned, got infected, then you died from said infection. Afterwards your corpse was tossed overboard. You were replaced with another slave held in the hold and the process repeats. American slaves were generally purchased (with a mortgage) so they were not infinitely replenished.
- newZWhoDis 3y ago“one of” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. American slavery didn’t hold a candle to the cruelty of Arab slavery. Imagine all the horrors of American slavery and they cut your balls off. Slavery and genocide mixed together, with the evil benefit of no free descendants to contend with.
- acdha 3y agoCastration was a common punishment in American slavery, and “didn’t hold a candle to” is a really egregious whitewash. Questions like whether it’s better or worse than having a child sold off are potentially valid philosophical debates but the only valid conclusion is that both were heinous systems deserving only condemnation.
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