Excerpt from Punishments Inflicted Under the Apprenticeship System: Extracted From the Appendix to a Report Recently Published by the Committee of the London Anti-Slavery Society, on Negro Apprenticeship in the British Colonies Insubordination 2 months' imprisonment and 24 stripes. Vagabondism 3 weeks imprisonment and 15 stripes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
DIVThe author analyzes punishment as a way to explore the dynamic of state formation in a colonial society making the transition from slavery to freedom./div