Suriname planters mutilated recaptured runaway slaves as routine punishment

Evidence

If a slave runs away into the forest in order to evade work for a few weeks, upon his being captured his Achilles tendon is removed for the first offense, while for a second offense, if he wishes to increase the punishment, his right leg is amputated in order to stop him from running away; I myself was a witness to slaves being punished thus. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 696

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