buck breaking
nounEtymology
buck (in derogatory US sense of a black man) + breaking (as in breaking a horse)
Definitions
The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases…
The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him.
- One example of this destructive process came in the form of “buck breaking.” This practice involved the breaking of the most masculine, rebellious, and/or influential of the enslaved Black males.
- Slaves were subject to a process called “buck breaking,” a method that was used by slave owners to strike fear in the observing slaves.
- As a means of breaking us psychologically, during slavery, white slave masters' implemented the “buck breaking” method.
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