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A Kick in the Belly - Women, Slavery and Resistance (Paperback)
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A Kick in the Belly - Women, Slavery and Resistance (Paperback)
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Loot Price R287
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The story of the enslaved West Indian women in the struggle for
freedom The forgotten history of women slaves and their struggle
for liberation. Enslaved West Indian women had few opportunities to
record their stories for posterity. In this riveting work of
historical reclamation, Stella Dadzie recovers the lives of women
who played a vital role in developing a culture of slave resistance
across the Caribbean. Dadzie follows a savage trail from Elmina
Castle in Ghana and the horrors of the Middle Passage, as slaves
were transported across the Atlantic, to the sugar plantations of
Jamaica and beyond. She reveals women who were central to slave
rebellions and liberation. There are African queens, such as Amina,
who led a 20,000-strong army. There is Mary Prince, sold at twelve
years old, never to see her sisters or mother again. Asante Nanny
the Maroon, the legendary obeah sorceress, who guided the rebel
forces in the Blue Mountains during the First Maroon War. Whether
responding to the horrendous conditions of plantation life, the
sadistic vagaries of their captors or the "peculiar burdens of
their sex," their collective sanity relied on a highly subversive
adaptation of the values and cultures they smuggled from their lost
homes. By sustaining or adapting remembered cultural practices,
they ensured that the lives of chattel slaves retained both meaning
and purpose. A Kick in the Belly makes clear that subtle acts of
insubordination and conscious acts of rebellion came to undermine
the very fabric of West Indian slavery.
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