Whipping scars of a former Mississippi slave, US Civil War, 1863

You wanna know what to put in place of one of those installed-in-1952 civil war statues they tore down?

Put this. Entitle it "tyranny will bend the backs of the strong. Let freedom ring."

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You’re right; someone should put up a large statue of this guy and his back. Make it visible. With a huge sign explaining who he was and why he looks this way. I’m sure republican supporters would complain, damage it or try to tear it down.

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- This is what comes to mind when some neonazi whines about preserving confederate statues n' shit because of 'muh heritage!'
  
  They're not wrong that it's our heritage; but it's DEFINITELY not one to be proud of. If we're going to showcase that side of US history (and we should), it should be done similarly to that of the holocaust museum: pull no punches in highlighting the absolute evil of the aggressors, and the suffering of the victims.
  
  When we look at our 'heritage' we should feel shame and disgust so that when current events start to echo that history, we understand the gravity of what's unfolding and make it top priority to stop that shit in its tracks.
  
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That's a lot of states rights on that man's back.

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And just think of all the useful skills that guy probably learned!

/s just in case there are any Florida school textbook authors in the thread

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- You sound like someone who reads a lot of banned books. We’d get along.
  
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- Anthropologists confused why many textbooks from the era have /s at the end of long paragraphs.
  
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It's OK, he probably learned some quality life skills from the experience. /s

The Florida State Board of Education’s new standards includes controversial language about how “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,”

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is intensifying his efforts to de-emphasize racism in his state’s public school curriculum by arguing that some Black people benefited from being enslaved and defending his state’s new African American history standards that civil rights leaders and scholars say misrepresents centuries of U.S. reality.

“They’re probably going to show that some of the folks that eventually parlayed, you know, being a blacksmith into doing things later in life,” DeSantis said on Friday

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/22/desantis-slavery-curriculum/

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Plenty of Americans will tell you the Civil War was about freedom. The question is whose freedom they care about.

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Holy fucking shit those are really thick and outward.

Because of the grayscale color it almost looks like a bad weld job and metal just dripped all over. It's so hard coming to terms with just how deep those must have been in order to scar up that much and probably often not just deep

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_(enslaved_man)

In this transcript Peter mentions "salt brine, which Overseer put in my back."[8] This practice, sometimes called salting, was attested in many accounts of slave torture reported over many decades.[16] Other substances, including turpentine, hot-pepper juice, and dripping candle wax, were also used

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- Jesus fuck. And we let those white supremacist slave torturing fucks walk free.
  
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- Five or six months after the scourging...the frightful laceration was partially healed, and only scars remained. But what must the whipping have been to leave such scars! The back looks like a plate of iron, eaten by acids and corroded by rust; or like a walnut-table honey-combed by worms... Bits as big as the hand seem to have been cut out of the flesh. No wonder that, at this distance of time, the man looks thin and ghastly, though he was a strong man, and must be a man of fine physique and presence....This card-photograph should be multiplied by the hundred thousand, and scattered over the states. It tells the story in a way that even Mrs. Stowe cannot approach; because it tells the story to the eye. If seeing is believing—and it is in the immense majority of cases—seeing this card would be equivalent to believing things of the slave states which Northern men and women would move heaven and earth to abolish.
  
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- Morbidly fascinating.
  
  I had thought the salt brine was a crude antiseptic, I hadn't realised it was intended to hurt. Perhaps both?
  
  Note that the overseer who did the whipping in this case was terminated by the slaves owner, so while I'm sure this wasn't that uncommon, it wasn't the case for every slave.
  
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As someone who forms keloid scars, I'm pretty sure they're keloids. Keloid formation is more common amongst Africans than Caucasians. I get fairly hefty scars from even mild abrasions, this poor guy got cut deep, plus the bit about salting. I feel guilty if I kill an insect. I can't imagine the depravity of someone who would do something like this.

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There are still countries that do this today.

Several countries also do "caning" which can leave similar scars.

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This is the word Desantis says was good for black people.

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My boomer parents will still say they had a great time working for us. Fuck boomers and silent generation and the generations before that

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Thank you for not saying “Greatest”. They were boomers, GI and Silent. “Greatest” is a book title and fellates this group over WW2 and the post-war boom while ignoring everything else they’ve done.

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- Well I think beating the Great Depression, Hitler , and Tojo at the same time is pretty good, as far as generations go. Also, the Korean War. And many of the Civil Rights Movement leaders were in that generation.
  
  They were calling baby boomers selfish before millennials even existed.
  
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This is conservative porn, should probably have a NSFW tag.

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Next time some shit-for-brains starts going on about "states' rights," show them this picture and remind them it was "rights" to this.

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I'm not a believer in any purposeful and vengeful diety/dieties, but should I be wrong, I do hope the sadistic fucks that perpetrated this bullshit on other people found some kind of hell to rot in for eternity. Anyone that continues to defends this behavior can fucking join them.

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The fact that this was allowed to happen for CENTURIES... The fact that the Holocaust happened, pretty much tells you there is no God. Or if there is, he certainly doesn't give a shit about us... Or worse yet he's an evil fuck who enjoys torture.... But a loving God? No, that is impossible.

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Much like many supposedly "unknowing" German citizens were forced to help clear the dead at the concentration camps, Reconstruction should have also included an "unofficial" system whereby every overseer got whipped just like that by a slave elected from amongst the slaves at their plantation.

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Nah, every overseer should have been shot.

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IIRC, this also featured in the Ken Burns Civil War documentary. Highly recommended.

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Anyone know why the skin heals itself in this way?

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Keloid scarring, more common in people of African descent but not exclusive to them. This would have scarred very badly regardless.

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It would look slightly less bad if he didn't heal with Keloid scars. Having said that, it's still fucked either way.

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Look up keloid

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