Esclaves Modernes

Esclaves Modernes
Author:	Jean de Virgans
Illustrator	Georges Topfer (as G. Smit)
Country	Paris, France
Period	20th Century (1910-1919)
Publisher	Librairie du Temple
Pages	299
ASIN	B001AFOAJ6
Notes	Illustrated cover and 10 illustrations inset, banners and B&W lampshades. Fleuron on the 2nd cover. / Illustrated cover and 10 B&W illustrations and some head and tail pieces inside. Illustration on the back cover.

Esclaves Modernes. La Traite et la flagellation des blanches dans le Sud-Afrique is a French spanking novel by Jean de Virgans, first published in 1910 by Librairie du Temple (Paris). It was also issued under the titles Les Esclaves Modernes and Modern Slaves. Other editions, by Librairie Franco-Anglaise , date from 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1931. The novel was illustrated by Gaston Smit (Georges Topfer, frontispiece and 5 plates) and has 268/299 pages.

"Modern Slaves", as the title translates, is a fictional novel on white European women whipped and abused by natives in South Africa, a twist on the stereotype of white dominance and the colonial enslavement and maltreatment of blacks

TABLE OF CHAPTERS.

CHAPTER I.

• The White slave trade. In Laurenço-Marquez.
• White flesh traffickers.
• Problems and profits of the trade.
• The slavery of European women.
• Corrections projects.
• The recruitment of executors.

CHAPTER II.

• The House of Correction.
• A flagellating German.
• Strange boarding school.
• Chastened little girls.
• Cruelties of negroes and negresses.
• Selika and the Englishwoman.
• The work of the dog whip.

CHAPTER III.

• Initiation into slavery.
• The Devil's Hill.
• Arrival of European women.
• The prison is closing.
• Flagellating preparations.
• The announcement of slavery.
• First punishments.
• Edifying flagellations.

CHAPTER IV.

• The Childhood of a Flagellate.
• Beginnings of easement.
• A martyred child.
• Flagellating maids.
• Swifts. “A fatal letter.
• Sophie tortured by the whips of carters.

CHAPTER V.

• At work.
• Learning and control.
• The Englishwoman's punishment.
• To overcome all resistance.
• The loves of Aristides.
• How Aglaé hoped to stop the flogging.

CHAPTER VI.

• Expiatory victims.
• Business failure.
• Threats of general punishment.
• The choice of the tortured.
• The triple thong.
• Its effects.
• Arrival of the German.
• The negresses will make the little girl speak.

CHAPTER VII.

• The Martyrdom of a Girl.
• In the hands of the negresses.
• Preliminary castigations.
• Continuing punishments.
• A horrible invention.
• Jane's torture.
• The whip is the strongest.
• Fraü Bohlein triumphs.

CHAPTER VIII.

• Dives into the abyss.
• Women at the diamond mine.
• Female hitches.
• The corrections inflicted by the negroes.
• Delivered to their executioners.
• The chicote comes into play.
• What's going on in the dorms.

CHAPTER IX.

• Rebellion and torture.
• Desperate.
• Violence and insults.
• We must resist.
• The plot is suspected.
• The flogging will reveal everything.
• The whip to Sophie.
• Negro and young girl.
• We can't resist beating.

CHAPTER X.

• Under the sjambok
• Relentless repression.
• Pleasures of Africans.*

A female hell.

• Lashing orgies.
• Preparations for torture.
• Merciless executioners.
• Europeans and sjamboks.
• Issuance.

• Esclaves Modernes illustrations by Georges Topfer
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  Moderne by Georges Topfer

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See also

• Edwardian era
• Early 20th century French spanking literature

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