Punishments In History
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Punishments In History
The common practice of early Americans that seems most alien to me is that of
human punishment. During the seventeen and eighteen hundreds, the way people
were punished was savage and crucial. Those who punished others for a crime,
seemed to take matters in there own hands and give punishments that were truly
too harsh compared to the crime committed. One of the areas in which such
punishment was greatly visible was in the slave institutes. Masters would treat
their slaves as if they were ‘animals’. It was crucial to see that the only
thing that differed Southern and Northern stores was that those in the south
stocked “negro-whips” and “mantraps” in their shelves. Whipping was the
popular way of punishing slaves at the time, therefore stores made sure they had
that six to seven foot long peace of cowhide, to sale to masters who wished to
beat there slaves. This type of whip was not enough, for they began making whips
that had a platted wire on the end so that it would hurt more and create more
damage to the skin. I was shocked to read that a slave would get brutal whips
just for simply taking a drink of water when it was not break time yet. If
looked at carefully the slave had committed no crime yet was still whipped by
his master. This is no way in which a human should treat another human, since we
are suppose to be the intelligent, moralistic species of the world. Whipping is
still nice, compared to other ways in which many criminals were punished. At
times of great crimes, delinquents were faced with the mutilating punishments of
the old penal laws, which included branding, ear cropping, hanging and even
occasionally castration and burning alive. Thinking of such punishment is harsh,
for I thought that the only things that got castrated were the animals in my
grandpas’ farm. That is not all, since I can not imaging a live human being
burned to death. Making such scenes even more disturbing was that they were held
in public areas where many people could gather and watch. In New Haven,
Connecticut, aroun...
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