Br. Mobberly recounts the whipping of Sucky, an enslaved woman at St. Inigoes, The Mobberly Diaries, Part I, 1820
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Title
Br. Mobberly recounts the whipping of Sucky, an enslaved woman at St. Inigoes, The Mobberly Diaries, Part I, 1820
Subject
Slaves-Abuse of, Women Slaves, Catholic Church-Clergy-Biography
Description
In a diary entry from 1820, Br. Joseph Mobberly offers an account of the whipping of Sucky, an enslaved woman who was punished as a child because she witnessed the self-flagellation of an unnamed priest from St. Inigo's Mission.
For another recollection of this event and additional details of those involved, see GSA94
For another recollection of this event and additional details of those involved, see GSA94
Creator
Joseph P. Mobberly, SJ Papers
Source
"Situation of St. Inigo's Farm House," Diary Part I, Box I, Folder I, p. 21-22, Joseph P. Mobberly, SJ Papers, Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Georgetown University
The Joseph P. Mobberly Papers have been digitized in their entirity by Georgetown Univeristy Library. To browse the collection visit Digital Georgetown.
The Joseph P. Mobberly Papers have been digitized in their entirity by Georgetown Univeristy Library. To browse the collection visit Digital Georgetown.
Publisher
Georgetown Slavery Archive
The Mobberly Diaries were previously hosted by the Jesuit Plantation Project.
The Mobberly Diaries were previously hosted by the Jesuit Plantation Project.
Date
1820
Contributor
Adam Rothman, Elsa Barraza Mendoza , Jesuit Plantation Project
Rights
Georgetown University Library
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Language
English
Type
Manuscript
Identifier
GSA136
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The cook, who was called Granny Sucky, & who according to the family records found in the house, was 96 years of age when she died, (tho' she often said she was more than 100) told me that she had had 23 masters, and that she never had had a bad one. he observed that she never had been whipped but once, the occasion of which, was this - One of her masters (the name I do not recollect) was accustomed to retire to an old neglected barn for the purposes of taking the discipline. This, it seems, after some time, was discovered and whispered among the blacks. Sucky was then a girl - She was resolved to see if this statement was true, and therefore followed her master at a distance. She arrived in good time, & peeping through a crevice, found that he had just bared his shoulders & begun his pious work. She immediately screamed aloud, & running to the barn door, begged her
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good master not to be so cruel to himself. She said that she loved her master most cordially, but that on this occasion, he gave her so sound a thrashing, that she was determined never to care much about his self-cruelties in future.
The cook, who was called Granny Sucky, & who according to the family records found in the house, was 96 years of age when she died, (tho' she often said she was more than 100) told me that she had had 23 masters, and that she never had had a bad one. he observed that she never had been whipped but once, the occasion of which, was this - One of her masters (the name I do not recollect) was accustomed to retire to an old neglected barn for the purposes of taking the discipline. This, it seems, after some time, was discovered and whispered among the blacks. Sucky was then a girl - She was resolved to see if this statement was true, and therefore followed her master at a distance. She arrived in good time, & peeping through a crevice, found that he had just bared his shoulders & begun his pious work. She immediately screamed aloud, & running to the barn door, begged her
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good master not to be so cruel to himself. She said that she loved her master most cordially, but that on this occasion, he gave her so sound a thrashing, that she was determined never to care much about his self-cruelties in future.
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Joseph P. Mobberly, SJ Papers, “Br. Mobberly recounts the whipping of Sucky, an enslaved woman at St. Inigoes, The Mobberly Diaries, Part I, 1820,” Georgetown Slavery Archive, accessed July 27, 2024, http://slaveryarchive.georgetown.edu/items/show/148.