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12-29-2014, 10:46 AM
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Depended on the owner. Slave owners were really against the nightly slave patrols punishing their slaves. These were made up of nonslaveholders and brutal in their treatment of slaves out without a pass. Slaveholder could sue in court for "property damages," which included cases or rape.

Sometimes discipline in the group was maintained by the sacrifice of a single malefactor. In Charleston, slaves were punished by forcing them to walk a treadmill for hours, sparing the bloodshed associated with the whip. But usually the master or overseer just strung the offender up by the wrists and beat them bloody. It doesn't take many blows before one's laid raw, especially if a cat 'o nine tails is used. Read Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast.

Remember that the US Navy used such devices, as did the army, the merchant marine, freighting companies out West--it was a different time. Civil War soldiers were broken to command by stringing them up by their thumbs, tying them to a spare wagon wheel on the rear of a caisson (and turning the wheel 90 degrees to really inflict pain), tying a stick under their knees with the wrists being tied in place to hold the whole rig together, and such. These were real torture devices deemed legal under the law, military or civilian. Diane Feinstein would positively bust a gut over this stuff. Waterboarding was used against guerrillas in the Philippines in the early 1900s. Read Bruce Catton's trilogy on the Army of the Potomac for a lot of these.
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