The image above is from an Anti-Slavery publication. It was
a common method of punishment to tie the poor individual to wide-spread
stakes in the ground for the beating. This scene was repeated uncountable
thousands of times across the American South. The horror of the image
below is without question. One can only imagine the agony that this
unfortunate man endured. Through all of the previous images and photographs
that this web site has displayed, I do not believe any come close to the
impact of seeing the ACTUAL SCARS on this slave's back:
Scars, that I am sure, the man had for the rest of his life. This
image merely carried the caption "Scars from a whipping on a slave's back.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. April 2, 1863."
