 | 1834 - 602 pages
...manner equally unworthy of the philanthropist and of the philosopher. Speaking of the blacks, he says, " After they are whipped till they are raw, some put...to make them smart ; at other times, their masters wilt drop melted wax on their skins, and use several very exquUite torments. These punishments are... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1848 - 352 pages
...author proceeds as coolly to describe ' usual ' whippingand other punishments, and concludes thus : ' After they are whipped till they are raw, some put...will drop melted wax on their skins, and use several exquisite torments.' " &c. — See Encycl. Land. in twee, ' Slave.' Each, one by one, is torn away... | |
 | Sir James Sibbald David Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 358 pages
...bloody, and several of the switches broken, being first tied up by their hands in the mill-houses." " After they are whipped till they are raw, some put...make them smart ; at other times their masters will drip melted wax on their skins, and use several very exquisite tortures." So much for negligence! "... | |
 | Mary Gaunt - 1922 - 370 pages
...with Manati Straps, for they do not otherwise appear to have been over-tender. "After they are whip'd till they are Raw some put on their Skins Pepper and...Wax on their Skins and use several very exquisite Torments. These Punishments are sometimes merited by the Blacks, who are a very perverse Generation... | |
 | Mary Gaunt - 1922 - 372 pages
...for they do not otherwise appear to have been over-tender. "After they are whip'd till they are Kaw some put on their Skins Pepper and Salt to make them...Wax on their Skins and use several very exquisite Torments. These Punishments are sometimes merited by the Blacks, who are a very perverse Generation... | |
 | Abigail Bess Bakan - 1990 - 200 pages
...usually whipt by the Overseers with Lance-wood Switches till they be bloody ... after they are whipt till they are Raw, some put on their Skins Pepper...make them Smart; at other times their Masters will drip melted Wax on their Skins, and use very exquisite Torments."0 There was, however, one important... | |
 | Robin Blackburn - 1998 - 612 pages
...negligence they are usually whipt by the overseers with hard-wood switches, till they be all bloody. After they are whipped till they are Raw, some put...on their skins Pepper and salt to make them smart. . . . These punishments are sometimes merited by the slaves, who are a very Perverse Generation of... | |
 | Nancy Cunard - 2002 - 316 pages
...accompanied lancewood switches till they be bloody and several of the switches broken." After the whippings "some put on their skins pepper and salt to make them...their masters will drop melted wax on their skins." For running away "iron rings of great weight on their ankles, or pot-hooks about their necks ... or... | |
 | Michał Rozbicki - 1998 - 240 pages
...usually whip't ... till they be bloody, and several of the Switches broken. . . . After they are whip't till they are Raw, some put on their Skins Pepper and Salt to make them Smart; at other times the Masters will drop melted Wax on their Skins, and use several very exquisite Torments." Geographical... | |
 | Elaine L. Robinson - 2006 - 253 pages
...rivetted to them or a Spur in the mouth. They are whip'd till they are Raw; some put on their skin Pepper and Salt to make them smart, at other times their Masters will drop melted wax on their Skin and use several very exquisite Torments." Sir Hans was not tender-hearted, for he adds: "These... | |
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After they are whipped till they are raw, some put on their skins pepper and salt to make them smart ; at other times their masters will drop melted wax on their skins, and use several very exquisite torments. 