Sometimes a slave is tied up by the wrists, while the ancles are fastened to a staple in the floor. In this position, they are punished with the whip or with the
The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil, "She only sulks go lash her to her toil" - NYPL Digital Collections
![Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox | National Museum of African American History and Culture Slave whip owned by British abolitionist Charles James Fox | National Museum of African American History and Culture](https://ids.si.edu/ids/download?id=NMAAHC-D4902041AEA82_5001.jpg)