Reasons for abstaining from West-India rum and sugar, suited to the understandings of the common people / John Valton.

  • Valton, John, 1740-1794.
Date:
[1792]
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Credit: Reasons for abstaining from West-India rum and sugar, suited to the understandings of the common people / John Valton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    whip ; and afterwards with Ebony bufhes, which are more prickly than thorns, in order to let out the foul blood. Some are whipped round the Town, or made to Rand in Tome public place, women as well as men. Some have received a hundred (tripes; lome one hundred and fifty, or more, till all the (kin has been taken off, from the hams to the fmail of the back, and their bodies appear as raw flefh and blood ; and afterwards they are walked with fait and pickle, which is a punifihtment more fevere than the whipping. This cruel uiage has made many run away into the woods, and cut their own throats. Some have mortified after flogging, bred worms and died. One poor woman, for breaking a plate, was nailed by the ear to a poft. In the morning fire was gone, having forced the head of the nail through her ear. She was foon found, and brought back ; and her two ears were cut off, clofe to her head, by the MonRer her MaRer. Some have had their teeth punched out, nofirils flit, and hands cut off. One had his leg maflied to pieces, and afterwards cut oil to fave his life. Some have been run through the body, Riot through the head, or thrown into the boiling cane-juice. Women have been obliged by their cruel MiRreffes, to work with a Thumb-fcrew on, or kneeling with their naked knees upon fmail pebble- Hones* Hot fcalding wax has been dropped 3 upon.