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The iron bit, also referred to as a gag, was used by enslavers and overseers as a form of punishment on slaves in the Southern United States. The bit, sometimes depicted as the scold's bridle , uses similar mechanics to that of the common horse bit .
Jean-Baptiste Debret's painting Slavery in Brazil, depicting an enslaved African tied up in a pau de arara [1]. Pau de arara is a physical torture technique designed to cause severe joint and muscle pain, as well as headaches and psychological trauma.
The "branded slave" photograph of Chinn with "VBM" (the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion) branded on his forehead, wearing a punishment collar, and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves became one of the most widely circulated photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War and remains one of the most ...
A branked scold in Colonial New England, from a lithograph in A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele and Esther Baker Steele from 1885 18th century scold's bridle in the Märkisches Museum Berlin 16th-century Scottish branks, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland A scold's bridle, having a hinged iron framework to enclose the head and a bit or gag to fit ...
Torture as a punishment falls under the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The text of the Amendment states that: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Thistlewood recorded this punishment as well as a further punishment of Derby in August of that same year in his diary. [3] On 18 November 2013 British television host Martin Bashir discredited a comparison made by U.S. politician Sarah Palin between the United States' debt to China and slavery by referring to Derby's dose.
In the caption of the photos which were posted on Facebook, Jones explains that his daughter created several social media accounts pretending to be years older than she is and was dating an older ...
Public humiliation or public shaming is a form of punishment whose main feature is dishonoring or disgracing a person, usually an offender or a prisoner, especially in a public place. It was regularly used as a form of judicially sanctioned punishment in previous centuries, and is still practiced by different means (e.g. schools) in the modern era.