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"The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass," by Frederick Douglass, (1892 edition)

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The lashings are painful to read about but my general understanding of that era is that flogging as a natter of judicial corporal punishment was common for anyone, free, or slave convicted of certain offenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_corporal_punishment#United_States

Then there was the range of punishments administered to sailors in the Royal Navy ranging from floggings with a cat 'o nine tails to keel hauling.

As Winston Churchill said of the Royal Navy, "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/24922.html

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