No one could legally own an Irishman, the definition of slavery. Never heard of any ones feet been set on fire. Crippling a slave would be foolish. Sorry, but your tales of "foot burning" are unique and without evidence. The Holocaust and Vietnam have nothing to do with this conversation at all and don't give credence to your statements.
Not up on reality. The only difference in Australia was you were indentured, technically. But, a white slave you were, in fact.
And there were Irish slaves in Britain. Sunni Jihad owned white Americans as galley slaves.
And maiming and nutting was quite common and there is a lot of evidence. Jee, why would just state such a racist opinion? Just skin head, really?
James Ramsay, a doctor working for several sugar plantations in
St Kitts, was shocked by the way the slaves were treated by the overseers. Ramsay later recalled in his book,
Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies (1784): "The ordinary punishments of slaves, for the common crimes of neglect, absence from work, eating the sugar cane, theft, are cart whipping, beating with a stick, sometimes to the breaking of bones, the chain, an iron crook about the neck... a ring about the ankle, and confinement in the dungeon. There have been instances of slitting of ears, breaking of limbs, so as to make amputation necessary, beating out of eyes, and castration.
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The British brought the slave system, and being a Son of the South, I was raised to abhor it. You were raised to make light of the horror I guess.