June 21st, 2007

Strung Up For A Slave Whipping

Despite its aged appearance, this photo is actually is a movie still from the 1993 movie “Sankofa“, in which “a self-absorbed black American fashion model on a photo shoot in Africa is spiritually transported back to a plantation in the West Indies where she experiences first-hand the physical and psychic horrors of chattel slavery”:

female field slave whipped

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DNC commented on July 4th, 2007 at 5:40 am:

Any overseer worth his salt would have completely stripped her before the whipping.

DNC

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