1 He said he had a great mind to give me a severe whipping.
2 I saw no whipping of men; but all seemed to go smoothly on.
3 My awkwardness was almost always his excuse for whipping me.
4 Mr. Hopkins could always find some excuse for whipping a slave.
5 He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave.
6 This whipping was the first of a number just like it, and for similar offences.
7 During the first six months, of that year, scarce a week passed without his whipping me.
8 The peculiar feature of his government was that of whipping slaves in advance of deserving it.
9 They were frequently whipped when least deserving, and escaped whipping when most deserving it.
10 I had lived with him nine months, during which time he had given me a number of severe whippings, all to no good purpose.
11 I did not hesitate to let it be known of me, that the white man who expected to succeed in whipping, must also succeed in killing me.
12 If, however, I found in my new home hardship, hunger, whipping, and nakedness, I had the consolation that I should not have escaped any one of them by staying.
13 Before he commenced whipping Aunt Hester, he took her into the kitchen, and stripped her from neck to waist, leaving her neck, shoulders, and back, entirely naked.
14 All of these lived at the Great House Farm, and enjoyed the luxury of whipping the servants when they pleased, from old Barney down to William Wilkes, the coach-driver.
15 I reached Covey's about nine o'clock; and just as I was getting over the fence that divided Mrs. Kemp's fields from ours, out ran Covey with his cowskin, to give me another whipping.
16 I had been at my new home but one week before Mr. Covey gave me a very severe whipping, cutting my back, causing the blood to run, and raising ridges on my flesh as large as my little finger.
17 Aunt Hester had not only disobeyed his orders in going out, but had been found in company with Lloyd's Ned; which circumstance, I found, from what he said while whipping her, was the chief offence.
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