barbarism-we

Updated: December 9, 2025

You must know that, notwithstanding our high state of civilization, we yet maintain in practice two of the most loathsome relics of barbarism-we lash helpless women, and we scourge, at the public whipping-post, the bare backs of men.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life