{"id":4847,"date":"2014-04-17T20:33:30","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T01:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4847"},"modified":"2014-04-17T20:33:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T01:33:30","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-april-17-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4847","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for April 17, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Livid Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of\u00a0<em>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin<\/em> (1852), quoted a description of punishment in the prison of New Orleans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEntering a large paved courtyard, around which ran galleries filled with slaves of all ages, sexes, and colours, I heard the snap of a whip, every stroke of which sounded like the sharp crack of a pistol. \u00a0I turned my head, and beheld a sight which absolutely chilled me to the marrow of my bones, and gave me for the first time in my life, the sensation of my hair stiffening at the roots.<\/p>\n<p>There lay a black girl flat upon her face, on a board, her two thumbs tied, and fastened to one end, her feet tied and drawn tightly to the other end, while a strap passed over the small of her back, and, fastened around the board, compressed her closely to it. \u00a0Below the strap she was entirely naked.<\/p>\n<p>By her side, and six feet off, stood a huge negro, with a long whip, which he applied with dreadful power and wonderful precision. \u00a0Every stroke brought away a strip of skin, which clung to the lash, or fell quivering on the pavement, while the blood followed after it. \u00a0The poor creature writhed and shrieked, and, in a voice which showed alike her fear of death and her dreadful agony, screamed to her master, who stood at her head, &#8216;Oh, spare my life! \u00a0don&#8217;t cut my soul out!&#8217;. \u00a0But still fell the horrid lash; still strip after strip peeled off from the skin; gash after gash was cut in her living flesh, until it became a livid and bloody mass of raw and quivering muscle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Culled from:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #bb0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312184255\/theasylumeclectihttp:\/\/\">The History of Torture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Livid Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of\u00a0Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin (1852), quoted a description of punishment in the prison of New Orleans: Entering a large paved courtyard, around which ran galleries filled with slaves of all ages, sexes, and colours, I heard the snap of a whip, every stroke of which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4850,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/4850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}