Whip

Whip; inscribed on the handle: 'C(?) D, Ford 1893, xxxxxxxxxxxx'. Violence and punishment were ever-present features of life for enslaved people on plantations. As with slave ship crews, plantation ‘overseers’ used whips to threaten those who did not work hard enough or who showed resistance to the system.

Object Details

ID: ZBA2483
Collection: Special collections
Type: Whip
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Unknown
Date made: circa 1890
Exhibition: The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire; Enslavement and Resistance
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Measurements: Overall: 25 mm x 90 mm x 87 mm
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