Plantation slaves claimed a right to protest mistreatment by their masters
Evidence
Another woman, a field hand by the name of Jenny who was recovering from an accident, insisted on returning to the hospital after absconding to tend to her provision grounds. When refused readmittance, she went to the extremes of reinfecting her hand, tying packthread around it and rubbing dirt into the wound in order to receive her full entitlement of convalescence. — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 287 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Slaves responded to plantation violence through collaboration, endurance, or open terror; Some slave insurgents grounded their revolt claims in the Rights of Man; Liberty itself, not outside instigators, incited the slaves to revolt (+6 more)
Related
- Enslaved women staged small daily acts of resistance against plantation owners (similarity 0.88)
- Slaves responded to plantation violence through collaboration, endurance, or open terror (similarity 0.87)
- A women-led revolt against the Company of the Indies broke out in 1723 (similarity 0.80)
- Enslaved women limited their fertility to strike at the plantation system (similarity 0.80)
- Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Enslaved women staged small daily acts of resistance against plantation owners
#expands(0.60) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 287 - United slave resistance disabled whites’ power to discipline plantations
#corroborates(0.45)