Flagellation of a Female Samboe Slave. A woman, naked except for a ragged loincloth, is tied to a tree for a whipping by her Dutch owners. Copperplate engraving by William Blake after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his "Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam," J. Johnson, London, 1813.

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