Introduction: colonial body politics: linking the punished body to the British West Indian social order
Six-legged women and derby's dose: the white imagination and narratives of bad bodies and good punishments
The persistence of corporeality: the apprentice's punished body and the maintenance of the socio-racial structure in Barbados and Jamaica, 1834-1838
The entanglements of freedom: bodies of laws and their role in the reinforcement of the socio-racial order
Confined spaces, constrained bodies: land, labor, and confinement in Barbados after 1834
Enclosing contagion: aberrant bodies and penal confinement in Jamaica
The punished black body and the public's gaze: demarcating socio-racial structures through the theatrics of punishment
The difference that gender makes: punishment and the gendered body in post-emancipation Jamaica and Barbados
Epilogue: final thoughts on what it means to punish black bodies.