Sugar mill feeding was lethal work usually assigned to enslaved women.

Evidence

There was a great many woman in the workhouse, and several have sucking child; and there was one woman quite big with child, and them make her dance the mill too, morning and evening. She not able to dance good and them flog her; she complain about her stomach hurt her, and I see her several time go and beg the overseer not to work her on the mill, but him say not him send her there — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251; Feeding cane through the mill routinely crushed women’s arms and bodies.

Related

• Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings (similarity 0.89)
• Exhausted enslaved workers were beaten with whips by foremen regardless of age or sex (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Feeding cane through the mill routinely crushed women’s arms and bodies. #exemplifies (0.80)
• Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings #corroborates (0.40) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251