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ancles

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punishment and torture

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slavery

torture

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Torturing American citizens. - Public domain dedication image

Torturing American citizens. - Public domain dedication image

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Punishment of one of the King of Whidah's wife and her gallant.

Punishment of one of the King of Whidah's wife and her gallant.

Public domain scan - 18th-century landscape print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Torture by pressing the ancles [sic] of criminal with wooden poles.

Torture by pressing the ancles [sic] of criminal with wooden poles.

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Miniature showing torture chamber. Leaena is shown lying on a table, bound by feet and wrists to cords drawn through rings on walls. Attendents rack her, two cowled men stand apart. She spits her tongue at one of them. Initial, border design.

Miniature showing torture chamber. Leaena is shown lying on a table, ...

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Sometimes a slave is tied up by the wrists, while the ancles are fastened to a staple in the floor. In this position, they are punished with the whip or with the paddle. This is an instrument of torture bored full of holes, each hole raising a blister.

Sometimes a slave is tied up by the wrists, while the ancles are faste...