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”:
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Any overseer worth his salt would have completely stripped her before the whipping.
DNC
I agree, slaves should be nude before the master’s lash.
Slaves WERE stripped, that is, if they had any clothing to start with. Slaves and poor freepersons often went naked or with only a loincloth or skirt of rough cloth (like sacking), saving full clothing for the winter.
A great source of amusement was that male slaves when stripped and hung up would, out of fear, have erections. After a few strokes it was not unusual for them to ejaculate, which gained more strokes for “wasting their seed” that should have been put to work in a female slave’s belly.
You will not see contemporary pictures or drawings of these things because of “sanitization.” Written accounts are scarce.