1834

[thehangingtree]

you guys are having some trouble adjusting to a storyline set nearly 180 years ago, aren't you? -Bar

Admi should be doing better because he is older than me. I am working on metallurgy of the period to procure the appropriate spikes (wood is sort of a constant). As for Persecutor Prosecutor Rodent, I doubt there is much change from one hundred generations to the next- bribe them all with nuts...

And you have it easy. Your bare tits grinding against a rough hewn whipping post as a bullwhip tears your back should feel about the same then and now...

T

 

[Barbaria1]

you guys are having some trouble adjusting to a storyline set nearly 180 years ago, aren't you? -Bar

Admi should be doing better because he is older than me. I am working on metallurgy of the period to procure the appropriate spikes (wood is sort of a constant). As for Persecutor Prosecutor Rodent, I doubt there is much change from one hundred generations to the next- bribe them all with nuts...

And you have it easy. Your bare tits grinding against a rough hewn whipping post as a bullwhip tears your back should feel about the same then and now...

T

All true statements. Nothing to argue with here.

 

[thehangingtree]

Thank you Barbaria...

To illustrate my point a whipping in 1834...



...looks very similar to Persecutor Rodent's interrogations today...



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[Barbaria1]

Ok ok. You made your point!

 

[thehangingtree]

'not hardly'

T

 

[Barbaria1]

The penal colony (or what it might have looked like) as seen from the deck of HMS Malevolent in the winter of 1834

 

[Barbaria1]

Both male and female convicts were routinely flogged in Australian penal colonies for minor infractions of the rules, males typically receiving 40 lashes, females half as many.


Pic of a flogging frame.

 

[thehangingtree]

...and a frightening welcome sight for the new arrivals...



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[Barbaria1]

...and a frightening welcome sight for the new arrivals...

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Nice pic .... Coming in a future epi. Thanks.

 

[Barbaria1]

The most common forms of punishment used in the penal colonies were the
whip, the stocks and the tread wheel. Any one out there have specific information or pics of the last one?

 

[thehangingtree]

I don't have any but a few have been posted on the site...

I'm sure someone can help...

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[admihoek]

look here

http://www.lordsandladies.org/middle-ages-torture.htm

 

[Barbaria1]

look here

http://www.lordsandladies.org/middle-ages-torture.htm

Thanks Admi, but I don't think that is the right kind of wheel.

 

[admihoek]

http://www.goddiscussion.com/43758/...s-a-case-for-abolition-of-capital-punishment/

 

[RacingRodent]

The tread wheel was a form of physical punishment in which a large number of prisoners were forced to keep pace with a rotating drum, sometimes the power could be used for some useful purpose but the main aim of the machine known to prisoners as the 'ever lasting staircase' was simply as an exhausting form of physical exercise.

 

[admihoek]

The tread wheel was a form of physical punishment in which a large number of prisoners were forced to keep pace with a rotating drum, sometimes the power could be used for some useful purpose but the main aim of the machine known to prisoners as the 'ever lasting staircase' was simply as an exhausting form of physical exercise.

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aha sort of slavework that was also a misconception

 

[Barbaria1]

The tread wheel was a form of physical punishment in which a large number of prisoners were forced to keep pace with a rotating drum, sometimes the power could be used for some useful purpose but the main aim of the machine known to prisoners as the 'ever lasting staircase' was simply as an exhausting form of physical exercise.

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Thanks RR!

 

[admihoek]

aha here is a new link
https://www.google.nl/search?q=trea...ic0AXY94GgDg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=617

 

[thehangingtree]

I don't think treadmill and wheel are synonymous, Admi, though your pictures are nice...

Tree

....no, Ulrika, I don't know what 'synonymous' means...

The tread wheel was a form of physical punishment in which a large number of prisoners were forced to keep pace with a rotating drum, sometimes the power could be used for some useful purpose but the main aim of the machine known to prisoners as the 'ever lasting staircase' was simply as an exhausting form of physical exercise.

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why are these clothed men and not naked wenches???

Who do I report this travesty to???

t

 

[RacingRodent]

aha sort of slavework that was also a misconception

Thanks RR!

The knowledge of what Barb was talking about is kind of niche, I had only happened to come across it because I was investigating poor houses and transportation for an off forum project of my own...so more luck than any kind of wisdom.

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why are these clothed men and not naked wenches???

Who do I report this travesty to???

t

To me

I shall consider your complaint momentarily Tree