No Bond but the LawInvestigating the cultural, social, and political histories of punishment during ninety years surrounding the 1838 abolition of slavery in Jamaica, Diana Paton challenges standard historiographies of slavery and discipline. The abolition of slavery in Jamaica, as elsewhere, entailed the termination of slaveholders legal right to use violencewhich they defined as punishmentagainst those they had held as slaves. Paton argues that, while slave