[FLT-bird]

Sorry but no. It wasn’t. In this example there was a particularly sadistic owner. That was not the norm. Scars on a slaves would indicate a slave who was either disobedient or who tried to run away. Both would lower the sales value of the slave.

The truth is slaves had been getting whipped for hundreds of years. Northerners didn’t care - just like they didn’t care that Yankee slave traders treated slaves far worse. It wasn’t a morality play no matter how much you want to pretend otherwise.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Since you're so fond of what the British press says even though the quotes you posted were from when England still had its empire and wanted their colonies back, here's what the British press is saying now.

Whipped mercilessly, worked to the bone in cotton fields and warned police will hunt them down if they escape: Incredible images show the brutal reality of slaves in America on the anniversary of the end of the brutal practice