Chapter 3: Images of African Women from John Stedman's "Narrative to Surinam"
Stedman addresses her as "a most miserable Young Woman in Chains simply covered with a Rag round her Loins, which was like her Skin cut and carved by the lash of the Whip in a most Shocking Manner."
Figure 1(Feb 2, 1773) "A Female Negro Slave, with a Weight chained to her Ankle" in Stedman, 40
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