Thursday, April 22, 2010

Alice Mills Barbados

``In 1693 the council of Barbados, paid one Alice Mills, ten Guineas for castrating 42 rebellious African slaves . The ghoulish rationality of this exercise in pre-decimal currency, was 2 shillings, sixpence per testicle''

Shilling about 5 pennies was a days wages.

From ``if the Irish ran the world''

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