Assertion: slave | /r/HasProperty | punished
Facets:
value: most cruelly
type: MANNER
value: else
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Slaves were responsible for the ploughing, sowing and harvesting of the crop and were punished if they did not work hard enough.
text: Slaves were punished for not working fast enough, for being late getting to the fields, for defying authority, for running away, and for a number of other reasons.
text: Slaves could not argue with their masters, they had to do exactly as they were told or else they would be punished.
text: If slaves stayed away for a few days, they might be punished, but "very little alarm was felt for a slave's absence until Wednesday, unless his previous conduct had excited suspicion.
text: This was considered to be natural, but when a slave had consensual relations with a white prostitute, he was most cruelly punished.