19th Century Corporal Punishment



CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON SLAVES
Slave trials in Lexington, Kentucky, Daily National Journal, July 28, 1831
Horrible Outrage and Murder by a Negro, Boston-Herald, Aug. 11, 1851, 2
Horrible Affair, Louisville Journal, August 21, 1851, 3
Temperance Kiel, Wilkinson County, Ga., 1850 census
Lynched, Times Picayune, August 30, 1853, 2
Rape and murder of mistress and murder of master (The Liberator, April 7, 1854)
Lynched,Daily Atlas (Boston) July 3, 1854, 1
Murder by a Negro and the Negro Lynched, New London Daily Chronicle (New London, CT) January 18, 1851, 2
Three Negroes Lynched, Centinel Of Freedom (Newark) August 2, 1859, 4
Rape of Mrs. Threlkeld, Pope County, Illinois, Springfield Republican (Springfield, MA), Sept. 2, 1856, 2
Prudence Threldkeld, Pope County, Illinois, 1850 census
Thirty-Seven Persons Poisoned, Daily Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Sept. 21, 1857, 2
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON FREE BLACKS
Mulatto women in New Orleans receive 20 lashes for vulgar language (Natchez Gazette, Oct. 24, 1826)
Jose Montes and Laurence Antonio, 10 lashes for petit larceny in Mobile (New Orleans Louisiana Advertiser, April 27, 1827)
The Negroes (Arkansas Gazette, Nov. 23, 1831)
Infamous Outrage By a Negro, Boston Herald, August 11, 1851, 2
Negroes Lynched. Lowell Daily Citizen and News (Lowell, MA) May 16, 1857, 2
Slave acquitted of murder, Fayetteville Observer (NC), Nov. 22, 1858
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON INDIANS AND LATINOS
An Indian Lynched, Boston Evening Transcript, August 13, 1849, 4
Women Lynched, Macon Weekly Telegraph, April 26, 1853, 4
Thieving Indian Lynched in Tuolumne County, San Francisco Bulletin, February 17, 1858, 3
A Mexican Girl was the Only Woman Ever Lynched, Montgomery Advertiser (Montgomery, AL), Oct. 20, 1909, 4
 

U.S. ARMY BRANDING OF DESERTERS
Pvt. John Riley given several hundred lashes and branded on both cheeks as deserter (Boston Daily Atlas, Aug. 10, 1848)
"Drummed" out of the Regiment, San Francisco Bulletin, July 18, 1859, 2
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Aug. 4, 1862
San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Aug. 8, 1873
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN THE U.S. NAVY
Flogging in the U.S. Navy
Flogging in the Navy, Emancipator and Republican, March 8, 1849
Commander V. Randolph to Commodore Parker, July 12, 1849
Watson G. Haynes to Secretary U.S. Navy, Nov. 19, 1849
Commodore Parker to Secretary U.S. Navy, Sept. 6, 1851
 

CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ON WHITES
12-year-old boy lashed at a N.Y. state whipping post (Daily National Intelligencer, May 27, 1822)
Procuring a slave to murder by poisoning, Daily National Intelligencer, May 22, 1823
Imprisonment and lashes for gambling Faro Table (Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, March 23, 1824)
Branded for grand larceny (Pensacola Gazette and West Florida Advertiser, July 6, 1827)
Swindler lashed in Natchez (Natchez Gazette, Oct. 20, 1830)
39 lashes at the whipping post for beating his wife (Arkansas Gazette, June 16, 1835)
List of crimes and pubishments in North Carolina (Raleigh Register and North Carolina Gazette, March 6, 1846)
Lynched, Daily Atlas (Boston) June 16, 1846, 2
Lawyer Lynched, Plain Dealer (Cleveland) December 18, 1848, 2
Murderer Lynched, Philadelphia Inquirer, July 25, 1849, 2
Thieves Lynched, Philadelphia Inquirer, Sept. 28, 1849, 2
Pillory and Whipping-Post (Boston Investigator, Feb. 26, 1851)
Lynched, Savannah Republican, December 23, 1851, 2
Gambler Lynched, Litchfield Republican (Litchfield CT), March 18, 1852, 2
Lynched, Times Picayune July 4, 1852, 2
12 lashes at the whipping post for stealing a horse (Fayette Observer, March 27, 1854)
Branded and imprisoned for manslaughter (Semi-Weekly Raleigh Register, April 12, 1854)
Numerous Crimes and Punishments, Daily Scioto Gazette (Chillicothe, OH), April 18, 1854
Lynched, Kalamazoo Gazette (Kalamazoo, MI) July 28, 1854, 2
20 lashes to a thief at the whipping post in Parkersburg, Va. (Boston Daily Atlas, Sept. 11, 1855)
Thieves Lynched, Sun (Baltimore) December 28, 1855, 1
Tragedy in Morgan County- A Prisoner Lynched, Public Ledger (Philadelphia) July 22, 1856, 4
Brutal Murder- A Methodist Preacher Lynched, Massachusetts Spy (Worcester, MA) August 13, 1856, 4
39 lashes for cow stealing (Savannah Daily Morning News, Nov. 24, 1856)
Lynched,Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH) May 8, 1857, 2
Men Lynched in Cedar County, Iowa, Sun (Baltimore) July 13, 1857, 1
Lynched, Daily Democratic State Journal (Sacramento, CA) July 20, 1857, 2
Fearful Tragedy in Leavenworth City, Kansas, Baltimore Sun, Aug. 8, 1857, 1
A Man Lynched on Suspicion, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 17, 1857, 1
Branded and 6 months imprisonment for the manslaughter of a slave (Weekly Raleigh Register, Oct. 21, 1857)
A Counterfeiter Lynched, Alexandria Gazette, February 1, 1858, 3
Punishments in North Carolina include branding the cheek of a bigamist (Bangor Daily Whig & Courier, June 27, 1859)
Sentence Day: 39 lashes for larceny and fine or imprisonment for beating a slave (Charleston Courier, Nov. 1, 1859)
A White Man Lynched in Louisiana for Stealing Negroes, Augusta Chronicle, November 8, 1859, 2
Lynched,Augusta Chronicle July 9, 1859, 2
Lawyer Lynched, Weekly Council Bluffs Bugle (Council Bluffs IA) July 13, 1859, 2
An Ex-Fillibuster Lynched at Denver, Boston Courier, September 26, 1859, 2
A Minister Lynched, Liberator (Boston), February 10, 1860, 22
Lynched for Assassinating the Husband of an Unfaithful Wife, New Hampshire Patriot (Concord, NH) March 14, 1860, 3
Lynched for Attempting to Rob a Sluice Box, San Francisco Bulletin, February 13, 1860, 2
Horse Thieves LynchedBoston Courier, July 19, 1860, 2
Charles Hudson sentenced to 18 years for the murder of his slave, NY Herald, Oct. 3, 1860
Court of General Sessions and Common Pleas (Charleston Courier, Feb. 22, 1864)
Castration in Indiana (Chicago Inter-Ocean, Feb. 15, 1876)
Sentenced to sixty years for castration in N.C. (St. Louis Globe Democrat, Sept. 30, 1879)
Lynched a Woman, New York Herald, March 19, 1895, 7
A White Woman Lynched: Executed By a Mob of Negroes in Virginia, Evening News (San Jose, CA), Sept. 30, 1897, 1
White Man Lynched in Arkansas, New York Times, Nov. 9, 1903
White Father of Negroes Lynched By Angry Mob, Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, Sept. 27, 1911, 1

 

THE WILSON C. BAKER-WILLIAM O. HOFFMAN CASE IN ST. LOUIS IN 1854
Hoffman lashed and castrated by Baker
Attempted Seduction!--Severe and Summary Punishment (N.Y. Times, March 22, 1854)
The Outrage at St. Louis (The Liberator, April 7, 1854)
Sequel to the Hoffman and Baker Affair (Daily Cleveland Herald, April 11, 1854)
The Baker and Hoffman Affair in St. Louis (North American and United States Gazette, April 13, 1854)
Murder and Riot (Chillicothe Daily Scioto Gazette, April 15, 1854)
William O. Hoffman died of his wound (Daily National Intelligencer, April 20, 1854)
Heavy Forfeiture (Daily National Intelligencer, Nov. 15, 1854)
Mrs. Baker Acquitted (Daily National Intelligencer, Nov. 28, 1854)
Acquittal (Boston Investigator, Dec. 6, 1854)
Wilson C. Baker death (St. Louis Globe Democrat, April 8, 1880)
A Woman's Vengeance (St. Louis Globe Democrat, Oct. 16, 1887)
 

LYNCHING OF BLACKS BY BLACKS
Negro Ku-Klux, Savannah Morning News, March 8, 1870
Negroes Lynched By Negroes--Not a White Man in the Affair (Indianapolis Sentinel, Oct. 10, 1874, 1)

A North Carolina Tragedy, Charleston News & Courier, Nov. 11, 1883
Negroes Lynched By Negroes Macon Telegraph, May 25, 1891, 5

Lynched By Negroes, Florida Times-Union, July 2, 1892
Negro Murderer Lynched By Negroes, Patriot (Harrisburg-PA), July 21, 1894, 1
Lynched by a Mob of their Own Race: Six Negroes Taken From their Guards and Hanged in Texas (NY Tribune, May 1, 1897, 7)
Lynching of Negroes Patriot (Harrisburg, PA), May 3, 1897, 4
Two Negroes Lynched by Negroes for Immoral Conduct (New Haven Register (CT), Jan. 7, 1898, 10

Two Negroes Lynched by Negroes (Emporia Gazette (KS), Jan. 8, 1898, 1
Negroes Terrorize A Band of Outlaws Playing Havoc in Lee County (Macon Telegraph, April 28, 1899, 1)
Negro Woman Almost Lynched: By a Wild Mob of Her Own Race, Age Herald (Birmingham, AL) May 16, 1899, 1
Negro Lynched By Negroes: Mob of Five Hundred Avenge an Atrocious Crime (NY Tribune, June 13, 1899, 1)

Lynchers Lynched: Negroes Take Summary Action on Negro Murderer and Are in Turn Lynched (Augusta Chronicle, June 13, 1899, 1)
Negro Lynched By Negroes For Shooting a Negro, His Sister-in-Law (Fort Worth Morning Register, March 7, 1901, 5)
Three Negroes Lynched: Men of Their Own Race Broke Into the Jail Where They Were Confined and Hanged Them (Cleveland Plain Dealer, Sept. 13, 1901, 7)
Brutal Black Hanged (Fort Worth Star Telegram, Nov. 3, 1903, 5)
Negroes Lynched By Black Men Salt Lake Telegram, Jan. 29, 1908, 6
Negroes Lynched By Mob of Their Race Morning Olympian (Olympia, WA), Jan. 30, 1908
Negroes Lynched By Negroes Baltimore Sun, April 6, 1910, 1

Negro Not Lynched By Negroes--Clarksville, Tenn. Freeman (Indianapolis-IN), Jan. 16, 1915, 1
 

LYNCHING OF BLACKS
Seven Are Lynched (Fort Worth Morning Register, May 1, 1897, 8)

Seven Indicted For Lynching in Duluth, Minn., Aberdeen American (SD), July14, 1920, 1
White Man and Eight Negroes Lynched By Watkinsville Mob (Augusta Chronicle, June 30, 1905, 1

Mob Victims Innocent Savannah Tribune, April 21, 1906, 1
Three Negroes Lynched (Idaho Register, Nov. 27, 1908, 5)
Two Georgia Negroes Lynched Times-Picayune, March 1, 1913, 7
Quiet Prevails After Lynching: Three Negroes Hanged By Mob In Minnesota Miami District Daily News (Miami, OK), June 16, 1920



LYNCHING STATISTICS
Thomas Dixon, Jr. The Unwritten Law: Lynching As It Is Done In The South (Idaho Register, May 5, 1893, 3)
Some Figures on Lynching (Colorado Springs Gazette, April 27, 1903, 4)
Ralph W. Tyler, 120 Lynched: Does Lynching Thrive Under the Democracy? Washington Bee (DC) Oct. 17, 1908, 1

SAM HOSE LYNCHING 1899
Another Horror at Palmetto (Augusta Chronicle, April 14, 1899)
Hose Will Be Lynched (Macon Telegraph, April 14, 1899)
The Negro Must Die (Macon Telegraph, April 15, 1899)
Sam Hose Burned at the Stake (Augusta Chronicle, April 24, 1899)
 

SAM PETTY LYNCHING 1899
Attempt to Burn Prisoners Alive (Gulfport Daily Herald, Feb. 25, 1914, 7)
Mississippi Mob Burns a Murderer Montgomery Advertiser, Feb. 25, 1914, 10
 

JESSE WASHINGTON LYNCHING 1916
Negro Admits Killing Woman Near Robinson (Fort Worth Star Telegram, May 9, 1916)
15,000 See Waco Lynching (Fort Worth Star Telegram, May 15, 1916)
Body Is Dragged Through Town After Boy is Burned Bellingham Herald (WA), May 15, 1916
The Waco Holocaust (Kansas Elevator, May 27, 1916)
Rebukes Nation for Lynchings (Trenton Evening Times, Sept. 22, 1916, 16)