Enslaved females were the victims of constant physical maltreatment. In sixteenth-century Compyagua (modern-day Guatemala), Polônia Congo was flogged for five days and a wooden stick inserted into her vagina in order to force her to identify enslaved Africans planning an escape. She resisted, however, and was able to report the case to church authorities in 1572. And this was by no means an isolated incident: at the end of the eighteenth century in Lima, Isabel Angola revealed that her master constantly beat and threatened her, as evidenced by the bruises all over her body (Barrantes, op. cit., p. 75). Another example dates to 1822 when Mônica, enslaved in the southern Brazilian State of Rio Grande do Sul, reported that her master spanked and whipped her every time he drank, which was frequently (Araújo, op. cit., pp. 578-80). In the Southern United States in the nineteenth century, female slave owners flogged, burnt and terrorized their male slaves, recording such episodes of sadistic violence in personal letters and diaries (Glymph, 2008, pp. 47-50). Individual cases reveal that enslaved females suffered a vast range of physical violence at various historical moments of colonization. Their point in common was their status as enslaved females. Physical and psychological abuse was an intrinsic feature of enslavement.