FULL
TEXT: Delaware still retains the whipping post and pillory. It is a source of
great curiosity to strangers, who, it is said, usually purchase the tails after
it has been used on a culprit as a souvenir of their visit. The pillory is used
for the perpetrators of petty offenses, and is on exceedingly humiliating
punishment to those submitted to it. For some crimes it is said to have a
wholesome effect on the offenders by advertising their faces so they become
afraid to attempt the perpetration of similar offenses again.
The
whipping post is used for wife beaters probably on the principle that “like
cures
like.”
Of course there is a strong diversity of opinion even in Delaware as to the
value of retaining this old relic of English criminal law. The following letter
from Frederick Douglass in answer to an inquiry put to him regarding the
advisability of flogging wife beaters, will be of interest in this connection:
DEAR
SIR:: If for any offense in the world a human being should be stripped to the
waist and lashed till his warm red blood should stain the earth beneath, it is the offense of subjecting his wife and
the mother of his children to that torture; but I am not sure of the wisdom of
this sort of retaliation. In resorting to flogging something more must be
thought of than the just punishment of the offender. We must consider the
effect upon the man thus punished and the man who is required to administer the
punishment, and if we succeed in whipping the brute out of the one and at the
same time only whip the brute Into the other, little has been gained to
humanity and decency by the operation. I know of few things better calculated
to blunt and destroy all human sensibilities than tearing the living flesh of a
man with a blood-clotted cowskin. The man who does it is unfitted for all moral
and human influence, and diffuses brutality in every breath. Sad, indeed, it is
for the world if only by flogging can men be made to refrain from beating their
wives.
◊◊◊
Coming
from a condition of slavery as I have, where everything was done by the whip, I
have perhaps a greater horror of flogging than I might otherwise have. Be this
as it may, I would try many other experiments before I would resort to the
whipping post as a remedy for wife beating. I write in haste, but I have said
enough to indicate my views on the point upon which you have done me the honor
to ask my opinion.
Truly
yours.
FREDERICK
DOUGLASS.
Washington, April 22.
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►• You have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was not taken seriously by police and the courts.
►19th Century Intolerance Towards Domestic Violence
► Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960 – this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)
No, the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).
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►• You have been told that before the rise of feminism in the 1960s that domestic violence against women was tolerated by society as acceptable behavior and was not taken seriously by police and the courts.
You have been lied to. The people who told you these
lies were paid to tell them you. In most cases you paid your own money (taxes
and tuition fees) to be lied to.
Here is one of countless pieces of evidence that demonstrate
the truth.
►•►• To see more eloquent, vivid
evidence proving the lie and giving you the truth, see:
►19th Century Intolerance Towards Domestic Violence
► Treatment of Domestic Violence Against Women Before 1960 – this post collects cases classified by the form of punishment or sentencing (whether judicial or through community action)
No, the claim that laws created by males were for the benefit of males is false. Yes, the "Rule of Thumb" myth has been proven to be a marxist-feminist hoax, taking an ancient English common historical notation published in the 18th century and extrapolating it into unsupported claims that 18th and 20th century United States communities, courts and legislatures (laws on the books) were in agreement with the18th century historical notation (Blackstone).
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“[O]nly since the 1970s has the criminal justice system
begun to treat domestic violence as a serious crime, not as a private family
matter.”
From the entry: “Domestic Violence” on encyclopedia.com
This claim has been proven to be false.
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