"There was nothing exceptional about the use of whipping to enforce discipline among slaves until the beginning of the nineteenth century. It must be remembered that through the centuries whipping was considered a fully acceptable form of punishment, not merely for criminals but also for honest men or women who in some way shirked their duties. Whipping of wives, for example, was even sanctified in some versions of scripture... During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries whipping was commonly employed as a punishment in the North as well as in the South. Not until the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century did whipping rapidly fall from favor in the free states." ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L65nIwgWA9Q

Chapter 1 of Life and Labor in the Old South (1929) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEoFs2UHnw