• AtariDump@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    “…. who gave us the number of lashes ordered…”

    ”Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done.”

    Even Satan would tell this guy to calm down.

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      23 hours ago

      Unfortunately, washing lashed backs with brine or hot pepper juice was a well-known ‘additional’ punishment levied on flogged slaves in the American South, whenever the punishers felt like the slaves deserved it, or looked at them wrong, or if the slavers were just having a moment of pure fucking meanness.

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          It wouldn’t change much. The Trumptards would just enjoy it. They lack the empathy to take away any valuable lesson from this.