that slave owners used to cut the achillies heel of there slaves to stop them running away.i know you can walk with this but is it true.
2006-09-15 05:10:05 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Not sure.. ill check back for your answers.. i would like to know as well. I wouldnt put it past abusive slave owners.
2006-09-15 05:11:47 · answer #1 · answered by Serious Mandy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think I've hears this, but I'm not sure it was about slaves. I think it is a story in mythology about a woman who cut Achillies tendon.
2006-09-15 12:14:15 · answer #2 · answered by kealey 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is not true. If they cut their achilles heels, they wouldn't have been able to "work" in the fields.
Don't believe everything you hear.
2006-09-15 12:19:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can not walk without Achilles heel
2006-09-15 12:15:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure, but if you do this, they cant even walk, let alone run!
i have heard that they would hobble them. this is where they restrcit the feet preventing them from moving too quickly, like using shackles with spikes in them, or something, or smahing the bones in theri feet. ouch!!
2006-09-15 12:15:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I heard of it as a practice to punish some runaways, but not as a preventive practice.
2006-09-15 12:15:12 · answer #6 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never heard that before and I am a history teacher.
2006-09-15 12:11:52 · answer #7 · answered by notyou311 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is true but you cant walk very well..
2006-09-15 12:12:35 · answer #8 · answered by demondude12331 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uuurrrgh...sounds bad.....
2006-09-15 12:16:38 · answer #9 · answered by anoer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋