Stella Dadzie: A Kick in the Belly

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Cover: 9781839763885 | A Kick in the Belly | Women, Slavery and Resistance | Stella Dadzie

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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.

Über den Autor

Stella Dadzie is best known for her co-authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women's lives in Britain which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature, and was recently re-published by Verso as a Feminist Classic.She is a founder member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent), a national umbrella group that emerged in the late 1970s as part of the British Civil Rights movement, and was recently described as one of the ‘grandmothers’ of Black Feminism in the UK. Her career as a teacher, writer, artist and education activist spans over 40 years.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Genre:	Geschichte
Jahrhundert:	Neuzeit
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Seiten:	224
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781839763885
ISBN-10:	1839763884
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Dadzie, Stella
Hersteller:	Verso Books
Maße:	195 x 128 x 16 mm
Von/Mit:	Stella Dadzie
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.10.2021
Gewicht:	0,194 kg

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