The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

Paddling in erotic fiction is readily available online. Bibliothèque de littérature érotique : histoires, textes, récits et confessions érotiques.

I read this in college from my library. Such were the times and in an all male Catholic college. Reviewed in URL. I did not pay a fine; it was not overdue.

Jean de Villiot, The Memoirs Of Dolly Morton : The Story of A Womans Part in The Struggle to Free The Slaves, An Account of the Whippings, Rapes, and Violences that Preceded the Civil War in America, With Curious Anthropological Observations on the Radical Diversities In the Conformation of the Female Bottom and the Way Different Women endure Chastisement, Ed. Charles Carrington, London, Paris, 1899.

http://www.alexislykiard.com/translatio … morton.htm

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The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

Another_Lurker would NEVER promote <s>pornography</s> erotic literature on this estimable Forum – unless he felt it absolutely essential of course!

However, he recalled reading some of the highly colourful adventures of Dolly Morton (promoted above by his ever industrious fellow contributor American Way) on the web, and he thinks it must have been here.

Sadly you have to read it a chapter at a time, but that isn’t really a problem, because if you can manage more than half a dozen or so chapters without having to desist due to an excess of mirth you should perhaps seek professional help!

The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

Pertinent to paddling. A female slave begged for any instrument of correction other than the paddle. It did have holes according to a previously posted illustration and was safely administered without assuming the brace position with a whipping bench. Advances in corporal punishment are such that a bored administrator administering a paddling on the highest mode is seen tormenting a girl with a transparent lexan paddle with a remote control on a whipping bench. It would provide self-control when a teacher was out of control. One wouldn’t have to adjust the size of the paddle but the settings.

I don’t think it would pass muster at a public hearing even if teachers volunteered to be on the receiving end. If prof n’s friend, Jackie video was shown with teachers being paddled, CP would have more of a chance. I don’t think there would be a bevy of volunteers like Congresswoman Bobbi Fielder for either forms of paddling.
As a “quadroon” like me there would be no mercy. This was taken from Dolly Morton introduction.

The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

American Way

Thanks for your comments.

If I understand correctly, both you and your father attended schools in the North East of the USA. Your schools used a leather strap or a stick (switch? hickory?) rather than a paddle. The paddle was therefore not universal in US schools in the last 100 years.

You further point out that teachers were trained in special teachers colleges and normal schools rather than at college so the influence of fraternities is unlikely. However, some of the high school teacher trainees would have completed a college degree first so may have been exposed to the fraternity paddle. More important may be whether school boards had fraternity members. Educated parents are likely to have been motivated to influence school administrations. If parents raised concerns about injuries inflicted during CP they may have specified only paddles were to be used.

It is well established that some slave owners used the paddle, presumably for a range of reasons. It is also likely that low status women and children were paddled in domestic situations in the slave states. It is unclear how this and related erotic fantasies might have lead to school paddling.

It is also unclear why the issue is so difficult to research.

The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

KK. I’m glad I was of some help. The leather strap was used in the adjacent public school and a yardstick or a “stick” in parochial school. Not a hickory stick but like a pool stick or dowel. Teachers went to state teachers college, formerly called, normal schools. They would not have fraternities or sororities in these specialty schools. They went right into teaching and not graduate school.

Paddles were used in all black schools (colored schools) in the south before integration. I can’t give you a url on that but I certainly read it online.

The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

KK & AW

Congratulations on all your diligent research.

Highly educational-had NO idea the paddle came from the slave trade.

Perhaps those opposed to paddling should be emphasising its’ disgusting origins a bit more.

No, make that a LOT more.

Steve

The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

* Tin’ paddle has superseded the cowhide in all Jails, workhouses, and places of punishment in South Carolina, as being moro effectivethat is painful. In some instances it la used on the plantations. It consists of a wooden instrument, shaped like a baker’s peel, with a blade from three to five Inches wide, and from eight to ten long. There are commonly holes in the blade, which give the application a percussive effect . In Charleston thla punishment is generally administered at the guardhouse by the police, who are all Irishmen. Any offended master or mistress sends a slave to the place of chastisement with a note, stating the deired amount, which is duly honored. Like Institutions breed like results all over the world: in Bala’s ‘ Journey Due North’ we find the same system Id operation in Bussia. VOL. DI.8

1863 An Englishman in slave-ridden South Carolina.

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1876 in slave free New York.

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The paddle seems to be very much the preferred implement in USA schools. When did it first come into widespread use? I am particularly interested in early mentions of the school paddle in dated factual or fictional literature, and in official documents.

Have other cultures used the paddle in schools?

Hi bdofed

Sorry, I disagree. Sex discrimination prevents equality and every special consideration afforded us comes at a price. I cannot have the same rights as a man unless he has the same rights as I.

That was just abuse. The teacher was quite possibly a sadist (in the true sense of the word), and almost definitely a coward. If I were the girl, I definitely wouldn’t pay the 10 cent fine and I’d tell him so. I doubt he’d do anything – bullies don’t know what to do when challenged.

I think we should feel superior to the abusive low-life in front of us. I wouldn’t feel superior to you though. In some ways I’d feel belittled because your abuser doesn’t think I’d be able to stand up to his abuse as well as he expect you to be able to.

Should I feel privileged? Of course not. Clearly my participation in the band is considered unimportant. That doesn’t do much for my self esteem.