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The association of blackness with the non-normative provides the “just” cause for enslavement; female blackness represents the ultimate deviance demonstrated by the female body’s power to make or break the system of slavery through productive and reproductive labor. As Jennifer Morgan argues, “Women’s work and women’s bodies are inseparable from the landscape of colonial slavery” (2004, 3). The grafting of the colonial landscape onto the female body highlights the corporeal alterations required to mold and refashion the body into an amenable commodity; the body’s perceived threat is thereby minimized by regulatory bodily controls in the form of torture and arbitrary punishment.
Within this structure, men do the whipping for the most part7 and women carry the permanent imprint of these masculinist markings. For this reason, a slave commander can repeatedly flog a pregnant woman by desensitizing himself to the suffering that he does not share with her. In other words, the inability to empathize with the tortured person’s suffering renews the sadist’s pleasure in enforcing it as a result of the absolute subjectivity of pain. He can extricate himself from any further accountability for his Diasporic Ruptures in Colonial Saint Domingue O 41 misdeeds by using an animal to impose the colonial state’s defining print on the female body: “Elle portait les marques des dogues sur ses mollets” (Trouillot 2003, 26).
The master’s vice nourishes itself by his insatiable desire to devour money and sex as tokenized items of his prestige.