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The treadmill was invented originally in England as a prison rehabilitation device : r/interestingasfuck
![A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint. | Wellcome Collection A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint. | Wellcome Collection](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0041239/full/full/0/default.jpg)
A white woman is being forced to work a treadmill as a black woman makes a derisory gesture and a white man with a whip watches over. Coloured aquatint. | Wellcome Collection
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Charleston shooting: The attack on the AME church is rooted in the city's vicious history of racial fears and violence.
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Charleston Sisters' Aversion to Slavery Fuels Fight for Women's Rights | South Carolina Public Radio
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TIL treadmills were originally a punishment used to harness human power on a giant wheel used to grind grains; hence the name "treadmill." : r/todayilearned
![Image of SLAVERY: TREAD MILL, 1834. - 'A Tread-Mill Scene In Jamaica.' Wood Engraving, 1834. From Granger - Historical Picture Archive Image of SLAVERY: TREAD MILL, 1834. - 'A Tread-Mill Scene In Jamaica.' Wood Engraving, 1834. From Granger - Historical Picture Archive](https://www.granger.com/wmpix/bkh/wor/0130736-SLAVERY-TREAD-MILL-1834-A-Tread-Mill-Scene-in-Jamaica-Wood-engraving-1834.jpg)