Weird facts about Africa II strange facts about slavery #factsinurdu
Channel: UTV Gujranwala
Date: 2022-11-01

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 I found these masks that black slaves had to wear, but conflicting statements about their purpose.
Some sources say that their purpose was to prevent the slaves from eating fruits that they harvested for their master.
It was also customary for the slaves to sing while they worked, and this could also be a way to shut the slaves' mouths. Masks, after all, also represent humiliation.

Some masks are said to have been a punishment for when a slave had spoken improper words.
And in general, they should speak little, because one did not want them to use their original, African mother language. That would have been something that would have united them against white rule. And no one could have controlled it.

Some slaves were also supposed to take care of the white children and were not supposed to speak to them in their language.
Sometimes the iron masks also served as punishment for disobedience. For example, the slaves were not allowed to eat or drink anything for a while.

One last explanation is the most interesting.
Geophagy, the eating of dirt, was common among slaves. This was probably common practice in West Africa. Since healing clay is known to this day, I can imagine that they cured their stomachs with it.
Slave traders found this unhealthy for their valuable "property" because doctors had told them that it gave their slaves depression, stomach aches, dropsy, loss of appetite, shortness of breath and dizziness.
To protect their "property", the slave owners equipped the dirt eaters with mouth-closing masks, which they had to wear even when working, in humid and heat.
It is not known to this day whether geophagy is harmful.
The cure for it, however, was torture.
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