If any of the slaves for whatever reason disobeyed their slave master commands, they would receive severe punishment that usually resulted in severe whipping and brutally, bloody, bodily harm. ... I have seen him tie up a lame young woman, and whip her with a heavy cow-skin upon her naked shoulders, causing the warm red blood to drip; and, in justification of the bloody deed, he would quote this passage of Scripture- "He that knoweth his masters will, and doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes." ... The beatings that are referred to in this passage are not necessarily physical in natu...

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