Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings

Evidence

There was a great many woman in the workhouse, and several have sucking child; and there was one woman quite big with child, and them make her dance the mill too, morning and evening. She not able to dance good and them flog her; she complain about her stomach hurt her, and I see her several time go and beg the overseer not to work her on the mill, but him say not him send her there — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251
• XREF: connects to: Enslaved women staged small daily acts of resistance against plantation owners — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 287; Enslaved women limited their fertility to strike at the plantation system — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 336; Enslaved women in Jamaica endured physical abuse including kicks to the pregnant belly — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 15 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves. #contradicts (0.50) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 48
• Enslaved black women worked as hard as men but were barred from supervisory roles #qualifies (0.40) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 62