Since this movie is based on fact was that other woman really whipped or was that just put in to make the movie more dramatic and violent?
shareThere's quite a lot of discussion of that subject on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pHH6Lzobyw
The consensus is that the whipping did, in fact, depict a real event.
Yes, and even if not this particular woman. No doubt it happened to someone on the long, long journey.
shareA few things I am confused about concerning the legality of flogging women in the distant past:
1. I thought a gentleman could never hit a lady? The female body is and especially back then was considered to be "delicate", so how could they justify flogging a woman like a man?
2. What about modesty? She was TOPLESS when being flogged meaning people could see her breasts which are considered to be a "private" body part. I have seen other whipping scenes in movies where to preserve modesty the woman's breasts are still covered while she is being flogged but that was not the case in this she was topless. Back then the world was very puritanical so I am not sure why they did not position here in such a way as to hide the breasts.
3. All she did was mouth off to a superior officer but STRIKING an officer is an even more serious offense. In MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY a man was flogged to death for giving his captain a black eye. If she had slapped him would she have gotten a much worse punishment like fifty lashes or a hundred? How many lashes would it take to expose bone? Seems to me it would take way less lashes to expose a woman's ribs than a man's since a man is larger with more muscle tissue.
Convicts and slaves were not considered as equal to the godly law abiding folk and therefore there were no restrictions on a good flogging, especially one who had shown disrespect to their 'betters".
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