#I'm remaking some of my lost posts so if you think you've seen them b4

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Gouging was essentially a type of duel to defend one's honor that was most common among the poor, and was especially common in southern states in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

The emphasis on maximum disfigurement, on severing bodily parts, made this fighting style unique.

Foreign travelers might exaggerate and backwoods storytellers embellish, but the most neglected fact about eye-gouging matches is their actuality.