"On the Flogging of Women" commentary

Collection

Identifier: MS 0100

Staff Only

Finding aid note: Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Scope and Contents

Document is 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,..”

Dates

Creation: 1827

Creator

Unknown (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Stored onsite at the Woodson Research Center.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish this material should be requested at the Woodson Research Center, woodson@rice.edu.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet ( (1 leaf))

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mr. Larry Jablecki, March 2009.

General Note

Portions of this collection are available online at https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/26578.

Processing Information

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