Historical Artifacts

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Generally, an artifact should be 100+ years old, but this is a flexible requirement if you find something rare and suitably linked to an era of history, not a strict rule. Anything over 100 is fair game regardless of rarity.

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Sharp branding tool for mutilating slaves, American slave trade, 18th century AD (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by PugJesus to c/historyartifacts

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[–] nul9o9 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A pointed branding tool on the end of a chain that dates from the 18th century and was captured from a slave ship by slave merchant Sumbu Mobee, part of the original collection at the Mobee Royal Family Slave Relics Museum in Badagry, Nigeria. According to the museum this tool was heated in fire and then used to write the names of the slave merchant on the skin of the slaves. It was also used to pierce the lips of slaves, to prevent slaves who were working in the fields from eating. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Absolute monsters.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah African slavers were brutal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Things like this make me remember how good I have it. Horrible.