In the modern ara, basic lee, it's supposed to send a message, right? The more gruesome, the more the message is sent. I mean, take for example, what's going on on a place like the island of san doming which is a french colony that will be known as hayte later in history. A the records were combed by a marxus historian from trinidad. His name was c l r james, and he's quoted in slavery, or world history, by milton meltzer. He says there was no ingenuity that fear or depraved imagination could devise which was not employed to break their spirit,. And satisfy the lust and resentment