Okay, so you know the Fritz as crime boss AU? The author writes a mash-up of 18th and 19th century characters in the series in question. One is Shaka Zulu. From the author's notes, I got this anecdote, which is in Wikipedia with a source of some modern historian that idk whether to trust, so grain of salt, but here you go:
"After the death of his mother Nandi...Shaka ordered that no crops should be planted during the following year of mourning, no milk (the basis of the Zulu diet at the time) was to be used, and any woman who became pregnant was to be killed along with her husband. At least 7,000 people who were deemed to be insufficiently grief-stricken were executed, although the killing was not restricted to humans: cows were slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like."
Predictably, he was assassinated less than a year after this.
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Re: Emotional isolation
Date: 2019-11-16 08:37 am (UTC)"After the death of his mother Nandi...Shaka ordered that no crops should be planted during the following year of mourning, no milk (the basis of the Zulu diet at the time) was to be used, and any woman who became pregnant was to be killed along with her husband. At least 7,000 people who were deemed to be insufficiently grief-stricken were executed, although the killing was not restricted to humans: cows were slaughtered so that their calves would know what losing a mother felt like."
Predictably, he was assassinated less than a year after this.
How's that for PTSD and absolute power?