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Was castration allowed under the slave codes as a punishment of slaves? Was that torture?

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Was castration allowed under the slave codes as a punishment of slaves? Was that torture?

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Slave codes differed from state to state, and over time. In the main slaveholding states the owner could do whatever he wanted for whichever reason. In others not.