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Therefore, although they are estimated to comprise less than 5% of the total female population on Gor, [22] training and keeping a female slave (often known as a kajira) is central to Gorean subculture. Formal slave training, slave positions, and commands, as well as slave attire and beautification, are practices central to the Gorean subculture.
Torture of slaves in the United States was fairly common, as part of what many slavers claimed was necessary discipline. As one history put it, "Stinted allowance, imprisonment, and whipping were the usual methods of punishment; incorrigibles were sometimes 'ironed' or sold." [1]
Another testimony explains how a slave owner in Kentucky around 1848 was looking for his runaway slave. He described her having "a brand mark on the breast something like L blotched". [14] In South Carolina, there were many laws which permitted the punishments slaves would receive. When a slave ran away, if it was the first offense, the slave ...
On the contrary, slavery as punishment for a crime dates to antiquity. In the U.S., almost identical wording appears in the Northwest Ordinance of 1784 and the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
The technique was used by prisons in the Southern United States until late in the 19th century and as punishment during times of slavery. [1] The technique, then known as the "sweat box", was used in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [2] The North Vietnamese Army used the technique at the infamous Hanoi Hilton. [3]
A metal collar could be put on a slave. Such collars were thick and heavy; they often had protruding spikes that impeded work as well as rest. Louis Cain, a survivor of slavery, described the punishment of a fellow slave: "One nigger run to the woods to be a jungle nigger, but massa cotched him with the dog and took a hot iron and brands him.
Voters in three states approved ballot measures Tuesday to prohibit slavery as a punishment for crimes in their states’ constitutions. The approved measures in Alabama, Tennessee and Vermont are ...
Slaves were occasionally rewarded for good behavior, but there was a belief that punishment was a more effective means of maintaining control. Punishments sometimes extended to include maiming, murder, rape, and the selling of loved ones, the last of these being often considered the most severe punishment. [52]