Vette is a 'companion' for your character in the game - players have the option to be pleasant, and have Vette follow out of loyalty, or to torture and coerce her into submission. A script has been written specifically for players who choose to torture their 'slave'. Gamers playing the hit online game Star Wars: the Old Republic are torturing and abusing a female 'slave' character with punches and an 'electric shock collar' - and enjoying it. The character comes with a 'shock collar' that allows gamers to ensure 'obedience'. YouTube videos show players of the million-selling role-playing hit abusing the character with electric shocks and backhanded slaps to the face, with captions such as 'Keeping your slave in line.
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Electric shocks, brain surgery, amputations — these are just some of the medical experiments widely performed on American slaves in the mids, according to a new survey of medical journals published before the Civil War. Previous work by historians had uncovered a handful of rogue physicians conducting medical experiments on slaves. But the new report , published in the latest issue of the journal Endeavour , suggests that a widespread network of medical colleges and doctors across the American South carried out and published slave experiments for decades. Medical journals that no longer exist, such as the Baltimore Medical and Surgical Journal and the Western and Southern Medical Recorder , overflow with reports of surgical experiments to treat injuries, birth defects, and tumors, all pioneered on slaves. Doctors often performed the experiments "apparently without pain relief," according to the study, in an era before anesthesia or sterile surgery. The study details four surgical experiments in particular, dating from to , that doctors performed on slaves.
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The return of hundreds more Myanmar fishermen found in slave-like conditions in Indonesia could be in jeopardy. The government is quibbling over definitions that determine how and how fast they will be repatriated. The government began a series of highly public repatriations — many funded by private corporations — following an Associated Press investigation in March that documented thousands of mostly Myanmar fishermen marooned on remote Indonesian islands. Some of the men had spent up to 10 years enslaved on Thai fishing trawlers where abuse — including beatings, electric shock and starvation — was rampant. In May and June, Myanmar repatriated in groups more than citizens who had been stranded on the far-flung archipelago.
Treatment of slaves was characterized by degradation, rape, brutality, and the lack of basic freedoms. The treatment of slaves in the United States varied widely depending on conditions, time, and place. Generally speaking, urban slaves in the northernmost Southern states had better working conditions and more freedom than their counterparts on Deep South plantations. As slavery became more entrenched and slaves both more numerous and valuable, punishments for infractions increased. Treatment was generally characterized by brutality, degradation, and inhumanity.