Hugging the widow. Interesting racial politics at play in this notice from 1892. A bill was introduced in the Virginia legislature to reinstate whipping as a form of judicial punishment. The argument against it, as argued here, was that there was no provision to protect white offenders from a punishment deemed appropriate only for their black counterparts.
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The Gay Highwaymen 