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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.
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Object Details
| ID: | ZBA2483 |
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| 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 |