Compare and contrast of diciplinary and pleasure in saddism

     In the books When i was a slave edited by Norman Yetman and Southern Horrors edited by Jacqueline Jones Royster  we will find a comparison between two black people that endured torture. Former slave Mary Reynolds was terribly tortured by her slave owner by being stripped and hung from her wrists. Her legs were then sprawled around a trunk and her feet were then tied together as she endured the worst beaten of her life. Years later after the civil war ended we find a free black man named Henry Smith also being tortured by burning of the stake to his body which lead to his death. Both cases deal with torture and sadistic pleasure but the comparison lies within shame. In Mary's case her torture was being used in a form of sadistic pleasure but it was behind closed doors, whereas in Henry's case his torture was linked to a sadistic enjoyment of torture openly.  It is interesting how private sadism torture and  public sadism can both share characteristics of torture but  differ in the intensity of violence on the account of an audience being present or not.