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we were fcarcely feated before we heard the 

 bleeding clang of the whip, and the painful 

 cries of a poor unfortunate black. The lady 

 pf the houfe, more accuftoroed to fcenes of 

 flavery than ourfelves, pointing to the fpot, 

 as if it were a pleafant fight for ftrangers, or 

 fomething that might divert us, afked, with ap- 

 parent glee, if we faw them "flogging tbe 

 negre ?" Truly we faw the whole too clearly* 

 A poor unhappy flave was ftretched out naked, 

 upon the open ftreet, tied down with his face 

 to the ground before the fifcal's door, his two 

 legs extended to one ftake, his arms ftrained 

 put, at full length, to two others in form of 

 the letter Y, and, thus fecured to the earth, 

 two ftrong-armed drivers *, placed at his fides, 

 were cutting his bare fkin, by turns, with 

 long heavy-lamed whips, which, from the 

 found, alone, without feeing the blood that 

 followed, conveyed the idea of tearing away 

 pieces of flefli at every ftroke. 



Confident with the freedom, and im- 



* Slaves fo termed from being promoted to the diftln- 

 guilhed office of following their comrades, upon all occa* 

 fions, with a whip at their backs^ as Ejigliih carter fol& 

 lows his horfes. 



