Enslaved women in Barbados toiled in the fields while heavily pregnant and nursing infants

Evidence

According to Dickson, it was not uncommon to see women ‘far gone in their pregnancy, toiling in the field’ or to see ‘naked infants … exposed to the weather, sprawling on a goatskin or in a wooden tray’. He grew used to hearing ‘drivers curse both them and their squalling brats, when they were suckling them’. — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 196

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 196
• XREF: connects to: 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; Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings #expands (0.85) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251
• White bookkeepers routinely kicked pregnant enslaved women in the belly across Jamaica #expands (0.80) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 280
• Black women under slavery were doubly enslaved by race and sex #exemplifies (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 26