A whipping post at a public plaza in Delaware has been removed to fanfare after historians and activists decried its presence as a reminder of systemic racism and injustice.
The most common category of crime punished at the post wasThe Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs plans to put it in storage, where it will share space with a whipping post from Dover. It could be slated for a museum setting in the future, the division said in a statement.
“It is appropriate for an item like this to be preserved in the state’s collections, so that future generations may view it and attempt to understand the full context of its historical significance,” the division's director, Tim Slavin, said in the statement. “It’s quite another thing to allow a whipping post to remain in place along a busy public street — a cold, deadpan display that does not adequately account for the traumatic legacy it represents, and that still reverberates among communities of color in our state.”
Georgetown leaders are also under pressure to remove a monument dedicated to Confederate soldiers from Delaware that was erected in the city in 2007. Apetition urging the Georgetown Historical Society to remove the monument and its Confederate flag has over 3,000 signatures. The monument cost the historical society over $14,000 in funding last year after state legislators didn't want to be seen supporting organizations that"celebrate the Confederacy and the traitors who fought for its failed racist ideology of hate and enslavement,"
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