Diana Paton is a Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. She is the editor of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, published by Duke University Press.

“No Bond but the Law is a model of research procedure and historical writing.”-Sidney Mintz, author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History “No Bond but the Law is one of the most interesting and intellectually ambitious works of scholarship to be published in the field of slave and emancipation studies in recent years. Diana Paton has written a book that takes several important conceptual matters and historiographies-emancipation, punishment, gender, and state formation-and puts them together in a remarkably compelling and original way.”-Steven Hahn, author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

• Illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Prison and Plantation 19Planters, Magistrates, and Apprentices 53The Treadmill and the Whip 83Penality and Politics in a “Free” Society 121Justice and the Jamaican People 156Conclusion 191Notes 201Bibliography 253Index 281

Diana Paton is a Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. She is the editor of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, published by Duke University Press.

“No Bond but the Law is a model of research procedure and historical writing.”-Sidney Mintz, author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History “No Bond but the Law is one of the most interesting and intellectually ambitious works of scholarship to be published in the field of slave and emancipation studies in recent years. Diana Paton has written a book that takes several important conceptual matters and historiographies-emancipation, punishment, gender, and state formation-and puts them together in a remarkably compelling and original way.”-Steven Hahn, author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

• Illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Prison and Plantation 19Planters, Magistrates, and Apprentices 53The Treadmill and the Whip 83Penality and Politics in a “Free” Society 121Justice and the Jamaican People 156Conclusion 191Notes 201Bibliography 253Index 281

Diana Paton is a Lecturer in History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. She is the editor of A Narrative of Events, since the First of August 1834, by James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica, published by Duke University Press.

“No Bond but the Law is a model of research procedure and historical writing.”-Sidney Mintz, author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History “No Bond but the Law is one of the most interesting and intellectually ambitious works of scholarship to be published in the field of slave and emancipation studies in recent years. Diana Paton has written a book that takes several important conceptual matters and historiographies-emancipation, punishment, gender, and state formation-and puts them together in a remarkably compelling and original way.”-Steven Hahn, author of A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

• Illustrations xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Prison and Plantation 19Planters, Magistrates, and Apprentices 53The Treadmill and the Whip 83Penality and Politics in a “Free” Society 121Justice and the Jamaican People 156Conclusion 191Notes 201Bibliography 253Index 281