Spanking

Spanking is the act of hitting someone on the buttocks with your hand to cause pain. Spanking is mostly used on children as a form of discipline. Harsher forms of spanking involves the person using belts, switches, paddles or other objects that can cause pain to the child. Spanking was also used to control slaves.

Spanking in Homes
In many homes, spanking is a form of discipline. However, some countries have banned the method of spanking completely. In the USA, spanking is not banned in any of the Fifty states. There were some movements to abolish spankings in home, but they all were heavily defeated. Conservatives whites and most African American communities usually spank their children at home, more than any other people.

In school
In most schools, corporal punishment was performed on kids with paddles and cranes. Now, it is currently banned in most places in the western side of the world. Spanking is more common in southern states in America than any where else though. There still some schools that allow this kind of punishment.

Justification for Slavery and Spanking Similarity
Numerous parallels exist between the justifications advanced in defense of slavery in the 19th century, and the justifications advanced in defense of spanking in the 21st. Both pro slavers and prospankers have claimed that God is on their side and that the Bible sanctions what they do. Quotes below are examples of this.

"They are MY slaves! I paid good money for them and I am not going to let some &#%@ abolitionists tell me what to do with MY property!" /

"They are MY kids! I brought them into this world and I am not going to let some blankety blank psychobabbling liberals tell me I can't hit them!"

Both proslavers and prospankers have argued that Africans/children are in some way "different" from the rest of humanity and that this justifies treating them in ways which would be unacceptable if done to anyone else.

"...our Imitation of him in this Moral Action is as warrantable as that of [adopting] his Faith... God set different Orders and Degrees of Men in the World... some to be High and Honorable, some to be Low and Despicable. Servants of sundry sorts and degrees, bound to obey; yea, some to be born Slave, and so to remain during their lives."

Both proslavers and prospankers have argued that slavery/spanking is for the victims' own good. Proslavers invoked the concept of "Ennoblement of the Heathen," arguing that the life of a slave in American was better that than freedom their native Africa, since as a slave, the African would be exposed to "Christian influences."

REFERENCE

Tise, L.E. 1988. _Proslavery: A History of the Defense of Slavery in America_. Univ. of Georgia Press: Athens GA.