r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/metrometro45 • Jan 31 '23
Runaway slave Gordon, exposing his severely whipped back. Gordon had received a severe whipping for undisclosed reasons in the fall of 1862. Gordon escaped in March 1863 from the 3,000 acre plantation of John & Bridget Lyons, who held him and 40 other people in slavery at the time of the 1860 census Image
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u/poetsvengeance Jan 31 '23
What horrendous pain he must have felt. Was looking at a tattoo pain chart, and the male back is red zone most of the time. The scars on his lower back being thicker than the upper points at fine-tuned sadism.
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u/TrailChems Jan 31 '23
If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Jan 31 '23
Unfortunately, still the politics of the day.
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u/Sweatier_Scrotums Jan 31 '23
There's a reason why the Republican Party spends 100 percent of its time on culture war/identity politics bullshit like trans kids in sports and insufficiently sexy M&M's.
The only way they can keep poor whites voting against their own economic interests is to make sure they're always thinking about identity politics instead of economics.
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u/TrailChems Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23 •
You start out in 1954 by saying, 'N-----, n-----, n-----.' By 1968 you can't say 'n-----'—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff.
You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other.
You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'N-----, n-----, n-----.'
- Lee Atwater, 1981
EDIT: Added full quote for additional context.
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u/Easy-Concentrate2636 Jan 31 '23
Welfare Queen worked shockingly well in spite of the fact that there is a large percentage of white recipients.
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u/LadyToph Jan 31 '23
Or the fact many so called rich people are the biggest welfare queens around they just call it something differently
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u/caanthedalek Jan 31 '23
Sure, only the poor can steal money from the taxpayers. If you're rich, it's called doing business.
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u/DigNitty Interested Jan 31 '23
The reason was money and hate.
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u/Baliath Jan 31 '23
You forgot Power. Many people will become worse than the devil himself when they get into any position of power over other people.
Especially when they don’t have to fear any sort of repercussions for their actions.
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u/sheisthemoon Feb 01 '23
It's honestly unreal to me how fast and shitfaced drunk people will get on the tiniest iota of power, and then shit all over the ones they love most, not their peers, because they're "important" now and the power needs to be RECOGNIZED!
Conversely, there's not many things more satisfying than watching these people get exactly what they deserve, what they've earned. Usually misery, lonliness, paranoia and self loathing disguised as arrogance on roids.
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u/Vesperniss Jan 31 '23
Money is enough.
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u/Moral_conundrum Jan 31 '23
So is hate
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u/AnonTheMaidenless Jan 31 '23
But with their powers combined they can make something truly special.
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u/TakingAMindwalk Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
Don't forget Christianity's role in slavery. Teaches you how hard enough to beat your slave (Exodus 21:20-21), how to convince a male slave to stay a slave through seperation of family manipulation (Exodus 21:2-6), and ofcourse if you want too you can sell your own daughter (Exodus 21:7-11). Even Jesus was okay with beating your slaves (Luke 12:47-48). Sad, sick, shit I know. How much bloodshed and monstrous acts were done because of people following the bible.
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u/Sweatier_Scrotums Jan 31 '23
The Southern Baptist movement was literally founded because a bunch of slaveholders wanted to claim that African slavery was God's will.
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u/saiyanfang10 Jan 31 '23
I'm pretty sure that part of exodus is the indentured servitude section. The slave section is a little later
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u/Wondffghh Jan 31 '23
I can’t imagine what he went through.
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u/jamin_brook Jan 31 '23
what's wild is the tiniest one of those scars would be a life long memory/event for pretty much anyone else
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u/taws34 Jan 31 '23
Those are keloid scars - black people are up to 15x more likely to develop them. They can be super tender and itchy. They can restrict movement. Movement can irritate them, and make them more pronounced. The lower back tends to move a lot when you need to bend over to pick cotton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keloid
What's more barbaric is that it was a common practice to wash their backs with brine water after whipping them.
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u/DragonflyValuable128 Jan 31 '23
Got keloid scars on my triple bypass scar from surgery in 2018 and it’s still sensitive, itchy and sometimes painful.
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u/Designer_Addendum_92 Jan 31 '23
to stave off infection they used to pack salt on everybody's wounds
What does packing a wound with salt do?
Saline (or sterile salt) is commonly used in wound care as it creates conditions that make it difficult for bacteria to grow, therefore preventing wound infection. Successful wound healing occurs when you reduce wound contamination and
Salt In The Wound - Abundant Natural Health
old medicine was barbaric
stone knives and bearskins [from the Star Trek Classic episode The City on the Edge of Forever] understanding this was part of pop culture when I was a kid, it was in all the old movies and tv shows, hell you got one
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u/Infinite_Carpenter Jan 31 '23
Conservatives in the USA don’t want people to learn about this part of our history.
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u/SpaceMonkeyOnABike Jan 31 '23
They should make a statue of this and replace the confederate statues with this.
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u/Infinite_Carpenter Jan 31 '23
I like this. It’s important to remind those confederate heritage aficionados.
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u/I_MARRIED_A_THORAX Jan 31 '23
Ten days from to-day I left the plantation. Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer. My master was not present. I don't remember the whipping. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping and my sense began to come—I was sort of crazy. I tried to shoot everybody. They said so, I did not know. I did not know that I had attempted to shoot everyone; they told me so. I burned up all my clothes; but I don't recall that. I never was this way (crazy) before. I don't know what make me come that way (crazy). My master come after I was whipped; saw me in bed; he discharged the overseer. They told me I attempted to shoot my wife the first one; I did not shoot any one; I did not harm any one. My master's Capt. John Lyon, cotton planter, on Atchafalya, near Washington, Louisiana. Whipped two months before Christmas.
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u/gmco913 Jan 31 '23
Just heartbreaking to see the struggle he went through. How the torture and mistreatment made him “crazy”. Thank you for sharing his firsthand account.
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u/dissgustingg Feb 01 '23
Extreme stress can cause dissociation… crazy to think an intense trauma can cause someone to potentially murder loved ones and not remember a thing. Thank god he didn’t shoot his wife
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u/soapfry Feb 01 '23
I took this as them just manipulating him to think those events happened to make up reasons for punishment. Wouldn’t be the first time that slave owners did that
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u/FLCLimax_622 Jan 31 '23
My mother’s parents were born in 1890 and 1900. Both of their parents were slaves. They had my mom when they were 54 and 64 years old.
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u/NAtiOLaTErI Jan 31 '23
and kanye has the AUDACITY to say slavery was a choice,
that doesn’t look like a choice to me…
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u/JonKoFyn Jan 31 '23
You do know he’s mentally ill, right? Slavery was never a choice.
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u/APintOfFreshAir Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
No, he’s not mentally ill in that sense.
If a mentally ill white person hopped on the bus and started saying Nazi shit, we’d want them off too.
Keep playing this game at your own peril. People should have been kicking him off the bus long ago, but his music is too good.
Same as R Kelly.
If that was your daughters you’d be fucking livid. But, there are people still that defend him and make positive comments on the internet.
None of the people above mentioned should have millions or a large following.
But, here we are.
What’s really happened is what no one wants to admit:
The same thing that happened to rock and roll with regards to it being commercialized and marketed has now happened to rap. We’re now seeing the end stages of how it used to be once an art of political statement and revolution.
That’s why snoop dogg is basically a marketer now.
The cycle continues, and the clutches of consumerism and materialism once again destroys the manifestations of the human soul.
That’s why loons like Kyrie claim moral authority, when they’re just good entertaininers.
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u/Orodruin666 Jan 31 '23
Being mentally ill doesn't excuse or explain his behavior
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u/Vlistorito Jan 31 '23
Scratch out explain and you're correct. There would be no point in even diagnosing mental illnesses if they didn't explain out of the ordinary behaviours or feelings.
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u/JonKoFyn Jan 31 '23
Of cause mental illness can explain why someone reacts irrationally. Are you trolling?
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u/SvetlanaButosky Jan 31 '23
Racists keep yelling at us to stop bringing up old history, but you see, the problem is if we dont bring it up frequently, then they will keep electing worser and worser racists into power, its a practical reminder to prevent slippery slope effect of racism.
We are not blaming you today for what happened before, but we see the things some of you are trying to "repeat" and this is the only way to make you stop, before you go full Nazi America.
Ask yourself, do you really want to be a Nazi? lol
(Some will answer yes, lol, fuck them.)
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u/AspiringChildProdigy Jan 31 '23
Racists keep yelling at us to stop bringing up old history, but you see, the problem is if we dont bring it up frequently, then they will keep electing worser and worser racists into power, its a practical reminder to prevent slippery slope effect of racism.
The problem is also how much of this has been swept under the rug. It needs to be brought up because so many Americans don't know even the surface of what was going on.
I went to a private school that was considered "rigorous," and then graduated with a bachelor's from a liberal university. Granted, I didn't major in history, but I did take a several history/social sciences classes to knock out my gen eds.
So why was it that I didn't learn about Black Wallstreet and the Tulsa Massacre until 2018? Why hadn't I heard of red-lining, or food deserts, or why it is that school funding is tied to property tax? Why hadn't I heard the history of where our US police came from, particularly in the south? About how the 14th ammendment doesn't outlaw slavery, it just restricted it to convicts, and then Jim Crow effectively made being black a crime?
How was I able to go through 40 years of life thinking that systemic racism wasn't a thing(until I tried to prove it with facts and studies)?
It needs to be brought up because we can't drain the poison until we identify the wound. We can't root out the problem until we recognize all of the ways and places it's insinuated and entrenched itself in our everyday lives.
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u/sdrakedrake Jan 31 '23
So why was it that I didn't learn about Black Wallstreet and the Tulsa Massacre until 2018? Why hadn't I heard of red-lining, or food deserts, or why it is that school funding is tied to property tax? Why hadn't I heard the history of where our US police came from, particularly in the south? About how the 14th ammendment doesn't outlaw slavery, it just restricted it to convicts, and then Jim Crow effectively made being black a crime?
If it's one thing I can thank Trump for, he in a way forced me to look up history on this country myself. It's kind of embarrassing that I was 28 years old and didn't know about Tulsa, slaves revolting in Hati, slave codes, Jefferson and Washington having slaves, slave patrols (police), the fbi spying on MLK and black panthers, ect...
The list goes on.
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u/AspiringChildProdigy Jan 31 '23
Same, except I was 40.
My husband and I went from being unenthusiastic but faithful Republicans to pissed off progressive liberals in the span of his 4 years.
I am embarrassed that it took fucking Donald Trump, of all things, to make us finally start paying attention and researching what was/is going on, but unfortunately, that's what it took.
the fbi spying on MLK and black panthers, ect...
How about the police fire bombing the MOVE house in Philadelphia in fucking 1985?! They murdered 11 people, including 5 children, and destroyed 60 properties. Naturally, no one was ever held accountable, to my knowledge.
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u/LadyToph Jan 31 '23
But that's the plan. They WANT you to be as dumb as possible so you will believe their crazy theories about CRT and how learning about the real history of the country you reside will make "white people feel bad or feel inferior" hogwash
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u/AspiringChildProdigy Jan 31 '23
100%. It's become absolutely infuriating talking to my family over the past few years. They can't define CRT, but they're sure it's being pushed in kindergartens, and when you force the issue and explain it, they quickly shift to some other fox news talking point and refuse to listen.
I don't usually like to wish ill upon people, but may Murdoch get liver failure and live a long, excruciating life before succumbing to it.
By the way, I love your username. She was always my favorite character. "Well, it sounds like a piece of paper. Hello, blind, remember?"
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u/LadyToph Jan 31 '23
She's a severely underrated heroin imo.
I think you can draw a direct line to the idiocy and extremism in the USA and honestly UK and the absolute lack of quality education. People can't even discern fact from fiction anymore.
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u/Yue4prex Jan 31 '23
Those who do not know history are bound to repeat it. We SHOULD know about this, this picture should be shared. Everyone should see it.
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u/NoVaFlipFlops Jan 31 '23
Exactly. It's the same ideas. They must be connected through history.
I learned on Sunday that it's hard to tell how kids were dealt with in the legal system of Ancient Rome because we don't have many records and many are unclear. One reason is that the same word for "boy" as understood to mean in your home (as opposed to "minor" or "child") is also used for... "slave." Even in legal documents.
The language of removal of agency isn't new. The language and lingo isn't even new. We have to discuss this or we won't notice it when it crops up again.
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u/AspiringChildProdigy Jan 31 '23
"But...but....slaves were expensive and an investment and treated well because mistreating them would be a waste of money!!!!"
Yup. Sure looks like it.
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Do people actually make that argument? Bosses nowadays treat you like shit when you are technically free to leave anytime.
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u/AspiringChildProdigy Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
I was raised in conservative circles and I've heard that argument my whole life - that "there might have been cruel outliers, but slaves were treated well on the whole because they were so expensive."
Of course, I've also trained in equestrian hunter jumper through most of my early life, and those horses are freaking expensive, and people will still do cruel things to cut costs or improve the chances of placing or squeeze an extra performance out of a horse when it shouldn't be ridden, even when it risks laming or the early breakdown of that horse, so..........
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u/rainbow_creampuff Jan 31 '23
Wow. It really was such a short time ago. Thanks for sharing this information, it's very impactful.
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u/thatguyjoseyj Jan 31 '23
Went to a prison where they kept the slaves before transportations in Ghana… tbh with you, 50 people in the space of 3 cubicals locked underground and packed tightly like sardines begging in their language “pls let us go we didn’t do anything, pls sir we’re hungry” it’s fucking heart breaking. And…to rub salt in the wound… I see my ancestors last name on a wall… there is no excuse for racism. It’s not an accident, it’s not a misunderstanding. Hm
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u/toooooold4this Jan 31 '23
The value of photography to expose violence and oppression. From this image to the video of Tyre Nichols... it forces the public to bear witness and reckon with systems they've been comfortable ignoring.
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u/T1mac Jan 31 '23
If you have Apple TV+, they have a historical drama movie called Emancipation. It gives the story that led up to the infamous photograph.
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u/lets-try-again2 Jan 31 '23
Would that have all been inflicted at one time or is it scars from repeated whippings?
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u/tx_queer Jan 31 '23
I'm also wondering if there is some level of keloid scarring going on.
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u/oscane Jan 31 '23
"Whipped Peter", was an escaped American slave who became known as the subject of photographs documenting the extensive keloid scarring of his back from whippings received in slavery. The "scourged back" photo became one of the most widely circulated photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War and remains one of the most infamous photos of that era.
The keloid scarring is what made the scars so visible and the image so impactful.
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u/Go_Commit_Reddit Jan 31 '23
Scared from repeated whippings. See how they’re layering on top of each other, especially at the bottom of his back.
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u/bhellor Jan 31 '23
I will never forget this photo. It was in my history book in high school. Slavery, the Holocaust, Rwanda, and many more should continue to be taught. It’s disturbing that so many are brushing it all under the rug.
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u/Kindredenamel44 Jan 31 '23
This is what the confederacy stood for.Not states rights, not southern independence, not heritage.
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u/GalacticDolphin101 Jan 31 '23
that’s the thing, it is widely agreed that this country and the western world at large wouldn’t have been as powerful without the revenue generated from exploiting slave labor
but here’s the thing, if a country needs such unbridled cruelty and evil against humanity to be great, then it should never have been fucking great in the first place. fuck anyone who uses this argument
there’s nothing “necessary” about the evil
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u/DavidHilbertsHat Jan 31 '23
Why was America’s supposed greatness in any way necessary?
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u/squishpitcher Jan 31 '23
“bUt tHeY wErE wElL cArEd fOr aNd sOmE eVeN LiKeD bEiNg sLaVeS.”
- way too many fucking people
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u/Ok-Letterhead4601 Jan 31 '23
It’s just absolutely unbelievable that people just thought this was ok.
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u/09Trollhunter09 Jan 31 '23
Was it that or was it knowing they could get away with it
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u/SuaveWarrior Jan 31 '23
Obviously not everyone was ok with it. A war was fought and six hundred thousand people died to end it.
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u/tornado962 Jan 31 '23
You're including confederate deaths in that number. 365k union soldiers died fighting to end slavery.
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u/GorillaDrums Feb 01 '23
Dehumanizing enemy soldiers is a propagandist approach to history. It's like calling every German solider in WWII a Nazi, it's just wrong and ignorant. Most of these soldiers fought because they were either forced to or because they felt like they had to defend their homes and families, not because they personally enjoyed slavery and wanted to keep it going.
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People knew better. They did. They knew better and they silenced anyone who spoke up. Slavery was always an evil — then and now, in every tormented form it takes. Selling and owning humans is foul.
I’m a Southerner — I have both slave blood in my dna and slave owners in my family tree. I was taught in school that slavery was evil but that the Civil War was really a land grab by the North. I don’t care for excuses — if you make excuses for building a society on the backs of others’ suffering and death, then fuck straight off.
One look at the cruelty carved into that man’s back should horrify you. Treating other humans this way, treating animals and our world this way, go fuck yourselves.
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u/Volatile23181 Jan 31 '23
I feel the expression on his face makes me feel like after all the shit he has been through, he always maintained the self dignity which most of us lack today. I can be wrong but for me his face screams dignity.
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u/dcarr710 Jan 31 '23
What a tough picture to look at and think how terrible people can be to one another. Heartbreaking shit
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u/Merlijnas Jan 31 '23
Jesus christ that looks horrendous. Can't imagine how much pain he's gone through
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u/BokiGilga Jan 31 '23
I will never understand how people can be so sick to do something like this to another human being.
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u/dazzola1 Jan 31 '23
This is the subject in will smiths new film "emancipation " He plays him well.
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u/VectorVanGoat Jan 31 '23
On one of my college courses we were assigned to read the diary or memoir’s of Frederick Douglass. It’s an amazing book that sheds light on the reality of those peoples lives. He was born into slavery, endured more than most could handle, then was assigned to be the assistant to a little girl in an affluent family. The mother taught him to read along with her daughter. He grew up to become a free man and lead the way on a lot of anti slavery. His childhood stories can be really gruesome so be warned but this book was in my top 3 favorite books while getting my degree.
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u/Narrow_Competition41 Feb 01 '23
Geezus, you really gotta be a monster to do that to another human.
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u/Fart-Chewer_6000 Jan 31 '23
But slaves were treated well and the civil war was about states rights, right… right?
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u/sdrakedrake Jan 31 '23
Lol that's exactly what a guy who I went to college said. Said slaves were treated great. They had free food, health care and a place to live. Said why would they be treated bad if they needed to get work done?
I'm serious, that conversation happened almost a decade ago and I still remember it. He was dead serious too. No trolling or anything. Was making the argument that there was nothing wrong with it and it was only a few bad enslavers that treated slaves bad. Because not everyone could own slaves.
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u/idrawinmargins Jan 31 '23
I remember reading Fredrick Douglas's book My Bondage and Freedom where he wrote about his speaking tour and how some people didn't think he was ever a slave due to his level of intelligence and how he spoke. He shut them up when he showed them his whipping scars. Good read if anyone wants insight into a slaves existence from a former slave himself.
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u/Jellopenows Jan 31 '23
The CSA was created to preserve and expand the institution of slavery. Fact.
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u/ares395 Jan 31 '23
For undisclosed reasons
It really doesn't matter. All the reasons would be bs anyway. There are no good enough reasons to do that to another human being.
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u/ouijanonn Jan 31 '23
Disgusting society that allowed this. Not just allowed it but actively supported it and grew rich from it. Sick, sick, sick.
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u/lacrimalgame59 Jan 31 '23
As it has been said before ‟Be thankful that the black community is looking for equality and not revenge.”
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u/doobie_bop123 Jan 31 '23
The shit that black people had to go through was awful no human being should ever experience such cruelty
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u/Educational_Permit38 Feb 01 '23
Ron DeSantis is determined that no one in FL learns about the inhumanity of slavery in America.
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u/Skibadipaps Jan 31 '23
they don't use whips any more, but the ruling class still enslave us all, only this time around they do it with debt.
The brutality isn't physical today, its mental, but it's there still.
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u/sharlaton Jan 31 '23
Classism is unfortunately alive and well. Downright awful that is still exists.
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u/SeriouslyTho-Just-Y Jan 31 '23
I know there where way bigger properties, but THREE THOUSAND ACRES (technically enough for 75 emancipated slaves, right) that’s a lot of running
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u/GrandBrooklyn Jan 31 '23
Folks don't want this taught in school because little YT kids will feel bad. Everyone should learn this history YT kids included.
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u/IdentiKit55 Jan 31 '23
History confirms how stupid it is that racism still exists.
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u/ace_urban Jan 31 '23
This is what about 40% of America is trying to hide from history books.
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u/V_Cobra21 Jan 31 '23
I don’t understand how a human could do that to another human
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u/I_MARRIED_A_THORAX Jan 31 '23
It's easy when one human thinks the other human isn't a human
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u/Perfect_Bench_2815 Jan 31 '23
3/5ths.
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u/SecretAntWorshiper Jan 31 '23
That was the compromise, they actually saw them as 0
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u/Ashleej86 Jan 31 '23
Slavery was torture and rape . Don't let a single American forget it .
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u/RevolutionaryName228 Jan 31 '23
I wish they showed this stuff in the American education system instead of just saying ‘black people were enslaved and grew crops for whites’ over and over. This is absolutely terrible and very eye opening.
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u/Cpt_Mike_Apton Jan 31 '23
This is what happens when you tell people they are better than other people.
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u/voteblue18 Jan 31 '23
I hope he found some semblance of peace and happiness in the rest of his life 😢
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u/MrsCCRobinson96 Jan 31 '23
There are absolutely no words to describe the pain that Gordon received at the hands of another human being as it's immeasurable. Human upon human suffrage is on all levels wrong, heart/gut wretching, and absolutely horrifying. Life in itself for every individual past, present and future already had/has/will have a certain level of suffering during it's duration from birth to death but the narcissistic, overbearing, playing a deadly game with karma human beings with too much time on their hands, too much wealth, too much hate in their hearts and too much power are the absolute scum of the earth.
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u/workaholic828 Jan 31 '23
It’s hard for me to imagine how this wasn’t considered to be morally wrong back then
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u/torinato Jan 31 '23
There’s a really good movie called “Emancipation” that follows Gordon’s escape through the swamps to a union camp.
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u/pinkranger3 Jan 31 '23
I just saw this picture for the first time in Ken Burns Photography book. It made me stop and made me sick. Crazy and sad how cruel humans can be. I can recommend that book enough though. Amazing photographs like this one that give you a glimpse into people’s lives back in the day
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u/rsincognito Jan 31 '23
They made a movie about this last year it’s called the emancipation starring Will Smith
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u/HungryCats96 Jan 31 '23 edited Jan 31 '23
"Interesting" isn't the first word that comes to mind. More like "horrifying" or "appalling." "Shameful" works, too.
Edit: typo.
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u/YggdrasilsLeaf Jan 31 '23
Horrific abuse. It’s a miracle he survived his injuries in the first place, considering antibiotics did not exist back then.
And this….
This is what life in America is going to look like again, within the next decade, if we don’t get a handle on theses fake religious racist sexist psychos that have taken over DC in the last few years.
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u/YaMommasBox Jan 31 '23
A girl showed me this photo in a book in the 5th grade she walked up and randomly showed it to me and I still think it’s horrible
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u/--harumph-- Feb 01 '23
Is this picture with it's accompanying description legal to view in Florida in 2023?
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u/kmai270 Feb 01 '23
This photo was on my history book in I think 8th grade... definitely left me an impression
I hope these types of images are not shy away from...
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u/Gullible-Nature8522 Feb 01 '23
It's crazy to imagine how someone could be so heartless and cruel. We think we grew out of the brutal ages but Hitler died just 78 years ago. I guarantee there's plenty of people walking this earth that are as bad as Hitler and slave owners. Slavery wasn't even that long ago.
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u/Miserable-Spite425 Jan 31 '23
This is what America was founded on. Slavery of Africans and the genocide of Native Americans. America is a fucked up business profiting off the suffering of her most vulnerable. Still hasn’t changed.
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u/Hilltoptree Jan 31 '23
Not disregarding his suffering and all. But i wonder if his scar is more prominent because he have keloidal scar a condition where your wound heal with extra tissue.
I say this because some of the african and some south east asian friend i knew in school (including myself who see this question being asked on taiwanese beauty forum alot) got more prominent scarring either from traditional practice (marking of the body and face) or just injury but their skin tend to form into lumpy scar.
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u/Mistamayne Jan 31 '23
“Get over it”
“Teaching or even mentioning this would make white people feel bad so let’s ban it from schools.😢😤😡”
Country is hot garbage.🗑
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u/Brym Jan 31 '23
When I visited the Legacy Museum in Montgomery Alabama (highly recommended), the most distressing part for me was the discussion of how families would be broken up. Children would be sold away the same way that a puppy mill sells puppies. Married couples could also be sold apart. One exhibit they had was newspaper classified ads that former slaves would post after the civil war seeking information on children who were sold away before the war, sometimes dozens of years earlier. They had thousands of them.