Punishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica (Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Ser., 28)
Brand: University of Georgia Press
Categories: Books, History, Americas



Dimensions: 6 x 0.75 x 9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0820351728
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0820351725
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Print length: 274 pages
Publication date: December 1, 2017
subtitle: Hardcover – December 1, 2017
author: Dawn P. Harris
review: Editorial Reviews Review Harris skillfully shows how white elites in Jamaica and Barbados used corporal punishment to blur the line separating free and apprenticed Africans and people of African descent from the enslaved long after emancipation. She offers powerful evidence of the plantation economy’s lingering, violent impact on Black bodies in the nineteenth century. While specialists may find much of its source material familiar, this book is a welcome addition to the growing scholarship on the history of the body and the history of punishment and surveillance in the pre- and post-emancipation British Caribbean. -- Brooke N. Newman ― The English Historical Review Book Description How and why punishment projected the British West Indian socio-racial order onto the bodies of its most vulnerable laboring classes About the Author DAWN P. HARRIS Is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Read more