Well, the Black Stole is a loose kind of shirt-coat, like an English carter's frock; only, it is of a different colour.

It is black instead of white, and made of nigger hide, beautifully tanned, and dressed as soft as a glove.
It ain't every nigger's hide that's fit for a stole.

If they are too young, it is too much like kid; if they are too old, it's like sole leather, it's so tough; and if they have been whipt, as all on 'em have a'most, why the back is all cut to pieces, and the hide ruined.

It takes several sound nigger skins to make a stole; but when made, it's a beautiful article, that's a fact.
"It is used on a plantation for punishment.

When the whip don't do its work, strip a slave, and jist clap on to him the Black Stole.