Abolitionism, Settler Violence and the Case Against Flogging

Bikini Atoll

“…For critics, opposition to transportationand especially corporal punishment, and particularly floggingfocused on anxieties about the legitimacy of the wider British imperial project. In 1840 the system was halted altogether in favor of the Probation System in Van Diemen's Land (Hirst 1983;Maxwell-Stewart 2010;Meyering 2010). Nonetheless, slavery continued to be central to domestic and imperial histories until at least the mid-nineteenth century (Hall et al 2014).…”

British Raj

“…For critics, opposition to transportationand especially corporal punishment, and particularly floggingfocused on anxieties about the legitimacy of the wider British imperial project. In 1840 the system was halted altogether in favor of the Probation System in Van Diemen's Land (Hirst 1983;Maxwell-Stewart 2010;Meyering 2010). Nonetheless, slavery continued to be central to domestic and imperial histories until at least the mid-nineteenth century (Hall et al 2014).…”