Slaves at work

[Tavy]

Field Slaves. By IrisObscura and Turnkey.

In the rankings of slave girls, field slaves were close to the bottom, although they were higher in status than mine slaves, quarry slaves and, at the very bottom, galley slaves.

Field slaves were forced to work naked, but to the women toiling nude, the humiliation and degradation at being reduced to a slave animal was certainly a secondary consideration to the backbreaking labor they were compelled to perform under the gaze of their overseers armed with long, rawhide whips.

I would think below galley slaves, after all many of them can just be repeatedly flogged to get the last bit of work out of them without bothering about making them last. As they collapse from starvation, cold and dehydration they can just be left to rot and fertilse the soil whereas on board a ship they cannot be immediately replaced and carrying spares would be less efficient than carrying food waste aboard to sustain them. Not that there is any need to whip and beat them any less, in fact their better health might enable them to withstand even more brutal encouragement to work harder.

 

[Thomas Chaser]

Sweeping and serving a favorite customer at the outdoor cafe. Credit to Swift Creek Photos.

 

[Hugin&Munin]

This is the sleeping place for the quarry slave between two work shifts

 

[Peter_the_giant]

My little contribution:

 

[supplice]

Escaped Field Slave. By calaf.
The young slave took advantage of her overseer dozing off to make a run for it. Of course a naked slave girl had almost no chance of a successful escape and she was spotted by a neighboring farmer as she sprinted down the road. The good man informed the owner and she was soon apprehended.
Her owner thought a bit over her punishment and then decided. First she would be pussy-ringed and branded. To give her time to recover, she was be chained in the dungeon for a week. After her time in the dungeon was over, she would be sold to the owner of a nearby salt mine where she would perform this grueling labor under the lashes of the slave drivers.

I really like this picture. It is on the forum in some other thread and it has stayed with me. The girl looks like she is sad, despondent, but resigned to her station and her fate.

Restrained as she is there, perhaps she is waiting for some cruel and degrading punishment at the hands of an overseer or a matron. The caption above by johnbratten is certainly a back story, and I have fantasized myself being in a similar (or many similar) scenarios. The imagery makes me dewey

 

[mark sessnatz]

Enough slacking!