Any slave who who shows resentment, disrespect, disobedience or an under-performance of his duties should expect to - and will - be punished by his owner
These two slaves - acting out of a sense of rebellion and despite repeated warnings - have consistently and deliberately not met their allocated work quotas and have earned the ire of their master.
Exasperated by their continued defiance, he has ordered they be flogged. Each is to receive thirty strokes of the lash and here we see them strung up ready for their whippings.
And as can be seen the whip is heavy and will cut deep into their exposed flesh.
Soon those looks of defiance will turn into masks of fear and pain as the heavy whip leaves their exposed backs welted and bloodied while they scream and writhe in agony. After the fifth stoke of the lash, they will loudly plead for mercy. However, they have exhausted their master's patience and there will be no reprieve from the whip's caress.
Even after they are cut down, their punishment is incomplete for their master has no use for under-performing slaves and has sold them to a quarry owner. There, with their wills broken, they will spend the rest of their miserable existences working naked and in chains as they swing heavy sledge-hammers chiselling slabs of building stone from the rock-face.
As they do so, they will, no doubt, wish they were back working in the fields of their former master's plantation.
Meanwhile their former owner will visit the slave-market and buy replacements or them. The slave-pens are full of complacent, obedient slaves who all too eager to please their masters.
Take heed slaves! Your masters hold the whip-hand. You must submit to their wills and please them in all things otherwise you too could suffer the fate of these two wretches.
Picture found on the internet. The text is mine.
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