Worse Life in the Afterlife

Although the earth contains much gold, there are few slaves to seek it, many having destroyed themselves because of the hard usage they receive from the Christians in the mines. The overseer of Vasco Porcallo, a resident of the island, having understood that his slaves intended to hang themselves, went with a cudgel in his hand and waited for them in the place at which they were to meet, where he told them that they could do nothing, nor think of any thing, that he did not know beforehand; that he had come to hang himself with them, to the end that if he gave them a bad life in this world, a worse would he give them in that to come. This caused them to alter their purpose and return to obedience. I WILL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DEPTHS OF HELL AND HAUNT YOU FOREVER I'm going to kill myself to escape a hard life of servitude and abuse

A crude rage-comic style illustration shows an overseer in a hat threatening a kneeling slave who is holding a noose. The overseer says he will follow the slave into hell and haunt him forever, turning the slave’s attempt to escape suffering into an even worse threat. The joke is used as an absurd reaction to someone whose cruelty or harassment would continue even after death. EN: A crude rage-comic style illustration shows an overseer in a hat threatening a kneeling slave who is holding a noose. The overseer says he will follow the slave into hell and haunt him forever, turning the slave’s attempt to escape suffering into an even worse threat. The joke is used as an absurd reaction to someone whose cruelty or harassment would continue even after death.

• @antichirst / 19417 2025-04-27