Assertion: slave's master | /r/CapableOf | punish slave
Facets:
value: for real or perceived infractions
type: CAUSE
value: brutally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Masters could punish slaves brutally for real or perceived infractions.
text: When Jacob Green, a stable-boy in Queen Anne's County on the Eastern Shore, released all of the horses to cover his loss of one horse, his master believed his pleas of innocence and punished all of the other slaves.