Slave rebellion in Jamaica forced British abolition from above

Evidence

I have not passed six months in Jamaica, and I have already found on one of my estates a woman who had been kicked in the womb by a white book-keeper, by which she was crippled herself, and on another of my estates another woman who had been kicked in the womb by another white book-keeper, by which he had crippled the child … and thus, as my two estates are at the two extremities of the island, I am entitled to say, from my own knowledge … that white book-keepers kick black women in the belly from one end of Jamaica to the other. — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 280 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The 1831 Jamaican rebellion forced British emancipation from above — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2078; Slaveholding demoralized planters while they feared their slaves; White bookkeepers routinely kicked pregnant enslaved women in the belly across Jamaica — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 280 (+6 more)

Related

• Enslaved women in Jamaica endured physical abuse including kicks to the pregnant belly (similarity 0.87)
• White bookkeepers routinely kicked pregnant enslaved women in the belly across Jamaica (similarity 0.87)
• The 1831 Jamaican rebellion forced British emancipation from above (similarity 0.85)
• Slave rebellion, not moral reform, forced British emancipation (similarity 0.83)
• Metropolitan abolition debates reached colonial slaves and triggered rebellion (similarity 0.81)
• Enslaved women limited their fertility to strike at the plantation system (similarity 0.81)
• Slaveholding demoralized planters while they feared their slaves (similarity 0.81)
• Enslaved women in Barbados toiled in the fields while heavily pregnant and nursing infants (similarity 0.79)
• The 1865 Jamaican rebellion convinced Britain to strip the colonial oligarchy of power. (similarity 0.79)
• Only about twenty of fifty thousand Jamaican rebels committed atrocities against whites. (similarity 0.79)
• Slave insurgents invoked the Declaration of Rights to demand general emancipation and wages. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• White bookkeepers routinely kicked pregnant enslaved women in the belly across Jamaica #expands (0.60) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 280
• Slaveholding demoralized planters while they feared their slaves #corroborates (0.40)