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 Lynched, Boston 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)