Kick in the Belly, A: Women, Slavery and Resistance

By (author): Stella Dadzie. Historian Stella Dadzie recovers the largely erased stories of enslaved West Indian women and their central role in resisting slavery, tracing a journey from Elmina Castle in Ghana through the Middle Passage to Caribbean plantations. She profiles figures such as Nanny of the Maroons, who led rebel forces in the First Maroon War, and Mary Prince, sold into slavery at age twelve, showing how enslaved women preserved smuggled cultural practices and carried out "subtle acts of insubordination and conscious acts of rebellion" that undermined slavery from within. It offers a female-centred counterpoint to histories of slavery and resistance that have traditionally focused on men.