Oration From The 19th Century.

An infant ten months old, had taken sulk on board of a slave ship, that is, refused to eat. The savage captain with his knotted cut whipped it until its body and legs had much swollen, he then ordered it in water so hot, that it's skin and nails came off, he then bound it in oilcloth; he, after a few days whipped it again, swearing he would make it eat or kill it; in a few hours after it expired, he then ordered the mother to throw her murdered infant overboard. [William Hamilton]