How to pronounce “treadle” in English

And I know the name sounds a bit funny by Western standards, but it was meaningful to Kenyan farmers.But what this is is a treadle pump.And this one actually works by tilting your body weight back and forth.

And you lay the Negro down on his face, on a bench, and tie to it.Now, when the operator pumped the treadle to turn the wheel, the straps thrashed the back of the man or woman tiedto the bench into bloody jelly.

And then sometimes the partners in these countries will come back to Stanford and bring their staffs with them.Like the group, you saw the red treadle pump there in Myanmar?Well that organization, Proximity Design, sent a big group back with our teams to study the school and the process.

Because, of course, the more cotton your slaves picked, the more pounds of cotton would sell, the higher your total revenue would be as a slave owner.So "this machine was a big wooden wheel, as Clay remembered, with a treadle on it.And when you tromped on the treadle, the big wheel goes around.