Enslaved women limited their fertility to strike at the plantation system
Evidence
Even so, there is evidence that some enslaved women made a conscious decision to limit or control their own fertility. In doing so, they were exercising one of the few subjective choices available to them to strike at the very heart of the plantation system. — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 336
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 336
- 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 organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288; Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251 (+5 more)
Library Connections
- Enslaved women in Barbados toiled in the fields while heavily pregnant and nursing infants
#complicates(0.70) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 196 - Enslaved women in Jamaica endured physical abuse including kicks to the pregnant belly
#complicates(0.70) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 15 - Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings
#complicates(0.70) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251
Broader Connections
- Labor scarcity led planters to coerce white women into breeding slaves.
#contradicts(0.55) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 48 - United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations
#expands(0.40)