Source: Harper's Weekly (July 28, 1866), p.477. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library) Comments Caption, 'Marks of punishment inflicted upon a colored servant in Richmond, VA'; shows the back of woman with burn marks. The victim was thirteen years old when, for reasons unexplained in the article, she annoyed or upset her […]

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