The Torture Devices of Slavery

Slavery was a terrible time for the Africans that were enslaved. To make it even worse, the slave owners used tools, that were more like torture devices, to keep the slaves in the animal mindset. One such tool was a bit. It was an iron mask that allowed the slave to breathe but disallowed them to eat the sugar cane that they were picking. The slaves would work with this cover on of hours in the sun. The mask would become so hot that when it got pulled off their skin would come with. This is exceptionally gruesome to imagine, and gut-wrenchingly terrible. Another bit has a metal tongue piece that was held in a metal ring that can tighten. This disables the ability to speak to the other slaves. While wearing these, slaves were repeatedly whipped and worked to death. With these torture devices, it only made it worse for them.