Slaves responded to plantation violence through collaboration, endurance, or open terror

Evidence

Monk Lewis also had cause to complain about a ‘Petticoat Rebellion’, when the women labourers on his estate downed tools and ‘one and all refused to carry away the trash … without the slightest pretence’. The mill was shut down for several days, yet the women stubbornly refused to go back to work. When the driver attempted to persuade them, ‘a fierce young devil of a Miss Whaunica flew at his throat and endeavoured to strangle him’. — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enslaved workers won removal of brutal overseers through collective strikes; Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288; Enslaved women staged small daily acts of resistance against plantation owners — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 287 (+8 more)

Related

• Enslaved workers won removal of brutal overseers through collective strikes (similarity 0.91)
• Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance (similarity 0.90)
• Plantation slaves claimed a right to protest mistreatment by their masters (similarity 0.87)
• Oppressed people maintained a continuous, dignified resistance throughout history (similarity 0.86)
• Enslaved women staged small daily acts of resistance against plantation owners (similarity 0.86)
• House slaves actively negotiated and resisted their distinctive form of bondage. (similarity 0.85)
• Enslaved people responded to violence through collaboration, avoidance, or counter-terror (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Blocked maroon escape routes pushed slaves toward systemic revolt #expands (0.78)
• Enslaved women organized coordinated work stoppages and direct physical resistance #exemplifies (0.60) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 288
• Enslaved women staged small daily acts of resistance against plantation owners #exemplifies (0.55) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 287
• Plantation slaves claimed a right to protest mistreatment by their masters #corroborates (0.50)