Consider yourself lucky if you are reading this, you most likely not to have lived in a society with extreme judgements, sentences, and punishments. Back in the good old days if you did something wrong, for example stole a goat, chicken, Adultery, you were pretty much assured being handed a death sentence. In those days there was no hanging around on Death Row, contemplating the errors of your ways whilst waiting for some form of humane, painless death. Executions in the ancient history seems to be so barbaric and devices used were built with careful engineering to push the guilty to feel extreme and prolonged pain before death. The forms of execution listed below really are so barbaric that you might question your faith in human nature. Blowing from the gun. With the invention of the cannon came this wonderfully imaginative way of executing enemy combatants. The basic method was to tie the unfortunate victim to the barrel of a cannon and fire it. Horrific as this sounds I imagine it w...
Slaves were known to be priced possessions of their owners who mainly were used for hard labour especially on farms and other labourous areas of enterprise. It's a known fact that slavery contributed significantly to the development of the Western nations and some of the upcoming developed countries like Brazil and the likes.
While I will not waste time to take you on History class or lessons, stumbled on a name and story that looked like fiction yet a true life and historical figure in Brazil.
Pata Seca was a black slave in Brazil in the late 1880s, while there are varying versions of his story and biography one thing remained constant. That Pata Seca was a slave who didn't work on any farm, factory or engaged in any hard labour through out his life but was groomed, pampered and given preferential treatment is an irony only explained by the reason for which it happened. The whole arrangement was a sinister one aimed as using Pata Seca as a breeder of slaves, just as dogs and other pet or domestic animals used to breed improved breeds, Pata Seca was the slave mater's breeding machine. His was a very tall black man, well built, athletic with big upper body and tall slender legs, it was believed then that such a person would easily produce very strong male offspring that would grow to be used on the farms.
Pata Seca was made to have sex with several slave women every day with the sole aim of impregnating them to produce strong slave offspring for his slave master. It is believed that he fathered about 249 or more children during the period, that his master ensured that he was well fed, and his health and well being properly catered for so he will always be in good shape to have sex and impregnate the hundreds of equally well selected strong slave women.
After the abolition of slavery, his master paid him off with a piece of land where he got married and gave birth to 9 children with his wife. he died in 1958 at the ripe age of 130 years.
His descendants are still growing and can easily be found in Brazil. You can google his name to discover much more about the legend who I found also participated in the struggle for the abolition of slavery and contributed immensely to the liberalization of slaves back then.
Modes please kindly move this post to front page as it's also for educative purpose too.
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