"On the Flogging of Women" commentary

This collection contains an anonymous commentary on an article appearing in the February 28, 1827 edition of “The Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter” that discussed propositions put forward by Lord Bathurst for reforms in the treatment of enslaved people in the Colonies; in particular, a prohibition of the flogging of women, which failed to pass . The author of the document is writing to give wider publicity to the enslavers’ vote to permit the flogging of women, “however painful the knowledge of these proceedings may be,..”

The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library. Search the finding aid/inventory for the "On the Flogging of Women" commentary, MS 0100.