Raynor HCA 2013-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/10/2013
A complete and authentic issue of the New York Weekly Tribune, August 30, 1856, 8pp., untrimmed, near fine. From the interior, “Brutal Slave Whipping in Lexington Missouri.” The Tribune correspondant reports, “I was in Lexington Mo. which I think may be regarded as the great hotbed of those who pride themselves ..”Border Ruffians. .. for the first time in my life, a spectator of the sale of slaves. two young menand a girl about eighteen years of age were placed on the block, surrounded by forty or fifty slaveholders. the first put up was a ‘nigger’ of great beauty and fine form. ... the bidding proceeded until $1250 was reached. ... On the succeeding Friday, a scene was presented in that same Court House which almost beggars description. Sheriff Withers, having a ‘nigger woman’ who had been neglectful of her task work, sent for a blacksmith to come and chastise her. ...tied the woman’s hands and lashed them over her head to the ceiling and commenced to whipping. the screams ... brought her husband to the rescue. He broke open the door, and with a butcher knife .. cut his wife loose. the slave and the blacksmith encountered each other. ... the slave surrendered and was led away to jail while the woman received a double whipping. ... A great crime has been committed - an outrage upon one of our citizens by a nigger. ...Something must be done. ... A committee of twelve was appointed .... who read the announcement ... ‘Your Committee have decided that the boy shall receive ONE THOUSAND lashes on his bare back ... The whipping commenced ....”
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