Torture In The 19th Century

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Slaves were not just abused, and tortured in the most horrific ways possible, but they were thought to be the lowest of mankind. Slaves were constantly reminded that their race was not pure, and that they were good at nothing besides labor work. Mental torture was just as bad as physical torture, it made the slave feel worthless to the world. According to S. Plous and Tyron Williams from Wesleyan University they claim “In the 18th and 19th centuries, many prominent whites in Europe and the U.S. regarded black people as mentally inferior, physically and culturally unevolved, and apelike in appearance” This comes to show that

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