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Why other than as punishment might it have been useful to slave owners to have their slaves scarred branded or their toes removed?
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∙ 10y ago
Disfigurement was used as a means of marking slaves as belonging to a particular owner. That would be useful to help recover runaway slaves and to discourage other masters from stealing slaves.
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