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Punishment, sexual violence and colonial social control This article explain how racialised violence was normalised in the British Caribbean as a tool of colonial social control. A few words about this learning step. It is with great care that we provide this subject matter. While it is important to understand the role of discipline in plantation economies in the British colonial islands and the extremity of racialised violence inflicted on the enslaved, we do not feel it is necessary to provide a full transcript on the variety of violent tactics used. This is a difficult balance to achieve: full understanding while not revelling in what many call ‘torture porn’. Unfortunately, the trauma that resulted from these horrific events is inheritable and new scientific studies suggests this trauma can even be mapped onto the molecular and cellular level. Please proceed with sensitivity. Throughout the slavery era, slaveholders and colonial administrators constantly fretted about maintain thei...