Branding of African-American slaves was common throughout the Antebellum south. The brutal and harsh act was performed both for identification purposes and as a form of punishment. Slave branding is the process in which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, was burned into the skin of a living slave with the intention to […]
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