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[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago

I saw the picture before I read the title, what a roller coaster of emotions that was. I thought he was going to amputate his foot.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

"You have a little sniffle, sir. I'm afraid we're going to have to take the whole foot." - medicine before antibiotics

[-] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Reminds me of the "plague doctor" greentexts

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

"you should have drank the pee"

[-] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

AMPUTATION!?!? That's how They™️ put the evil spirits into you that send smoke signals to the Queen!

-Antiamputationers

[-] lanolinoil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Might as well while we're removing the irons -- 1900 doctors probably

[-] OtakuAltair@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I saw the picture after the title and still thought that for a second

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 64 points 1 year ago

Actual badasses.

[-] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 year ago

Do we know where those slaves were being taken to?

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Samuel Chidwick, 74, has donated photographs taken by his father Able Seaman Joseph Chidwick, born in 1881, on board HMS Sphinx off the East African coast in about 1907. The photographs, on display at the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth, Hants, show a sailor removing the manacle from a newly-freed slave as well as the ship’s marines escorting captured slavers.

Mr Chidwick, of Dover, Kent, said: “The pictures were taken by my father who was serving aboard HMS Sphinx while on armed patrol off the Zanzibar and Mozambique coast. “They caught quite a few slavers and those particular slaves that are in the pictures happened while he was on watch. “That night a dhow sailed by and the slaves were all chained together.

He raised the alarm and they got them on to the ship and got the chains knocked off them. “They then questioned them and sent a party of marines ashore to try to track the slave traders down. “They caught two of them and I believe they were of Arabic origin. “My father thought the slave trade was a despicable thing that was going on, the slaves were treated very badly so when they got the slavers they didn’t give them a very nice time.”

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

the slaves were treated very badly so when they got the slavers they didn’t give them a very nice time.

I may be reading into it, but I wonder if that's that generations way of saying they beat the shit out of the slavers before turning them over to the authorities, without admitting to anything specific.

[-] Deceptichum@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

It is.

Except they were also the authorities.

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Police violence?

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They declined to offer them tea. Monstrous behavior from a brit

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

Part of the Arab slave trade, I believe.

[-] Michael-Starr851@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago
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