ABSTRACT
The system of production on Jamaican plantations depended on the successful subjugation of the slave body. The first two chapters have shown that a variety of methods were in place to train slave women’s reproductive bodies in such a way that they would produce strong and docile future labourers for the estates, while the third chapter has suggested that the sexual violation of slave women’s bodies was largely a means to assert control over the slave labour force. It was, however, not only slave women’s reproductive and sexual bodies that planters and their officers tried to control but also, and more importantly, their productive bodies. They did this largely through the use or threat of physical punishment, especially flogging.
