A girl who waited about the house, on her mistress, displeased her, for which the Deacon stripped and tied her up
A girl who waited about the house, on her mistress, displeased her, for which the Deacon stripped and tied her up "Next a girl who waited about the house, on her mistress, displeased her, for which the Deacon stripped and tied her up. He then handed the lash and ordered me to put it on--but I told him I never had done the like, and hoped he would not compel me to do it. He then informed me that I was to be his overseer, and that he had bought me for that purpose. He was paying a man eight hundred dollars a year to oversee, and he believed I was competent to do the same business, and if I would do it up right he would put nothing harder on me to do; and if I knew not how to flog a slave, he would set me an example by which I might be governed. He then commenced on this poor girl and gave her two hundred lashes before he had her untied. . After giving her fifty lashes, he stopped and lectured her awhile, asking her if she thought that she could obey her mistress, and She promised to...