Whipping of Phillis Ruffin, Harmon's Crossroads, North Carolina, February 14, 1867, artist's impression, detail.

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Sarah Goldberg, House Divided Project, Dickinson College

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07/20/2016

Notes

Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, August 28, 2017.

Depicted ContentDaniel Sickles, Confirmation of sentences in the case of the whipping of Phillis Ruffin, Charleston, South Carolina, August 17, 1867,

Depicted ContentSecond District commander David Sickles confirms the convictions in the Phillis Ruffin beating case.

Depicted ContentIn Plymouth, North Carolina, ten men from a white mob who viciously beat Phillis Ruffin go on military trial.

Depicted ContentIn North Carolina, a white, male mob viciously beats a young African-American woman named Phillis Ruffin.

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engraving

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Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA

Original caption

Whipping a negro girl in North Carolina by "Unreconstructed" Johnsonians.

Source citation

Harper's Weekly Magazine, September 14, 1867, p. 559.

Source note

Cropped from the larger and fuller image, also available here.

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