White bookkeepers routinely kicked pregnant enslaved women in the belly across Jamaica

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

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 280
• XREF: connects to: Enslaved women in Jamaica endured physical abuse including kicks to the pregnant belly — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 15; Enslaved women in Barbados toiled in the fields while heavily pregnant and nursing infants — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 196; Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Enslaved pregnant women were subjected to brutal treadmill labor and floggings #expands (0.85) — Stella Dadzie, A Kick in the Belly- Women, Slavery and…, 251