"He whipped a she-slave so long that she fell down at his feet for dead. When by the help of a physician she was so far recovered as to show signs of life, he repeated the whipping with equal rigour, and concluded with dropping hot sealing-wax upon her flesh. Her crime was overfilling a tea- cup.”

You: "Sounds great to me! That's just what people did! That slave convinced herself she was a victim"

I see why you call yourself "Triathelete" instead of your real name -- because you don't want people to know you are cosplaying as a sociopath on the Internet.