buck breaking

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of publicly punishing a male slave, typically by flogging him, and in some cases subsequently sexually assaulting or raping him in front of other slaves, in order to humiliate him. offensive,uncountable
    — One example of this destructive process came in the form of “buck breaking.” This practice involved the breaking of the most masculine, rebellious, and/or influential of the enslaved Black males.

词源

buck (in derogatory US sense of a black man) + breaking (as in breaking a horse)
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