Suriname: 'Flagellation of a Female Samboc Slave', from John Gabriel Stedman, 'Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition, against the revolted Negroes of Surinam . . . from the year 1772, to 1777', London, 1796

The engraving shows a woman hanging from a tree with deep lacerations; in background two white men and two black men, the latter with whips. Stedman witnessed this punishment in 1774.

The woman being whipped was an eighteen-year old girl who was given 200 lashes for having refused to have intercourse with an overseer. She was 'lacerated in such a shocking manner by the whips of two negro-drivers, that she was from her neck to her ancles literally dyed with blood'.

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