Dragonard

In 1747 a handsome but rebellious Scotsman named Richard Abdee is auctioned off as a slave on a Caribbean island controlled by French and British sugarplanters When caught having sex with his owners wife Abdee is given 100 lashes with the dreaded dragonard whip This sentence is meant to be fatal but Abdee survives and later joins in a slave revolt which puts an end to the islands era of savage whippings