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                  Shackled at a colonial whipping post, this middle-aged man suffers through the agony of 200 lashes.  For a flogging to be this severe, the man would have had to have been charged with insurrection or rebellion.  (The whipping post in this drawing is styled after the actual post that stood in the Kent County Jail, Dover, Delaware, USA.)  Records listed in  Robert Caldwell's Red Hannah  show that convicted prisoners were whipped as recent as 1942.  Caldwell's book was published in 1947.  The Encyclopedia Americana reports that the Delaware whipping post was last used in 1952 !  

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