Yes, Mother Browning was a Latina?

No, she was the wicked witch of Maryland, and her “apprentice” is not an apprentice, but a mislabeled slave. Note the stick, for more serious punishment, behind the old bitch.

The type of whipping used on American poor and African American slaves did not originate in the African slave trade, and was not a normal practice in Latin American nations, any more than the bonnet worn by the mistress was typical of Latino colonial matrons. Whipping, by tying to a post, was a distinctive feature of English maritime justice descended from the practice of whipping a sailor—who was most often a man beaten into submission while drinking at a tavern or pub and then dragged aboard a ship as a seaman—after tying him to a mast.

Note. Also the broom as the symbol of the girl’s apprenticeship—not exactly learning a trade, is she?

“Maryland Gazette? Is this a precursor to the Nuns whuppin ass in school? Even the Marquis De Sade would wince at this!”

-Mescaline Franklin

Since you are unlikely to find re-enactors doing this at Colonial Williamsburg, enjoy the slice of Colonial American history at the link below: