The Attitudes of Public Execution

In the 18 thirties and he 18 fifties, it was ok cause it happened. But if you'd a done it forty or 50 years later, it wouldn't have been. So what's the difference? It brings me back to a phrase, and i don't remember where i first encountered it, but i ran into it about events during the same time period when things changed in the slave outlook. Let's call it the attitudes. And it had to do with public executions,. which had for several hundred years, one might say forever, but specifically, for several 100 years previously, been public spectacles of intentional torturing and suffering.