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"Oh, but Robert E. Lee was such a Southern Gentleman!" (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 days ago (1 children)

“…. 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.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Reading of slave punishments should be required reading like the Holocaust.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

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