--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >
[bounced becuase the entire digest was appended as
> quoted text,
> thereby pushing the length well over the limit]
>
> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:12:33 -0500
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> From: Ed Dupree <tedupree at fas.harvard.edu>
>
> A former slave of Lee tells how he
> tried to escape, was
> caught, then whipped by an overseer under Lee's
> personal supervision ("Lay
> it on well", quoth the Marble Man), then treated to
> a bath of salt water
> for his wounds.
Not wanting to enter this debate, but that's not an act of cruelty. It was also common practice in the British Navy; the point being that salt water was pretty much the only widely available disinfectant.
dd, betting that Justin is even now writing exactly the same post, but unable to resist being a know-all
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