AFTER THE scourge of slavery and the challenges of colonisation, Jamaica evolved into an independent nation which has captured the imagination of the world to which we have given reggae music, top-class sportspeople, Rastafarianism, super-talented.
Yes Magazine shares an excerpt from Stella Dadzi’s
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In her new book,
A Kick in the Belly, Afrocentric British historian Stella Dadzie describes how her research into slavery-era documents reveals the lives of enslaved Black women in the Caribbean colonies and the American South. The phrase “kicked in the belly” summarizes the abuse enslaved women endured but they also resisted, rebelled, and kicked back. “These women’s response,” she writes, “can be seen as a metaphorical kick in the belly for those who tried and failed to dehumanize them.”
The Everyday Resistance of Enslaved Women
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Studying history is like detective work especially when the rebellion of Black women has been left out of the story.
In her new book, A Kick in the Belly
, Afrocentric British historian Stella Dadzie describes how her research into slavery-era documents reveals the lives of enslaved Black women in
the Caribbean colonies and the American South. The phrase “kicked in the belly” summarizes the abuse enslaved women endured but they also resisted, rebelled, and kicked back. “These women’s response,” she writes, “can be seen as a metaphorical kick in the belly for those who tried and failed to dehumanize them.”
Rescuers save deer tangled in hammock after months of tracking By KOVR Staff | January 1, 2021 at 10:27 AM EST - Updated January 1 at 2:18 PM
FAIR OAKS, Calif. (KOVR) - A deer in California got a special Christmas gift this year, after rescuers finally were able to remove a hammock that was tangled around his antlers.
He had eluded rescuers for almost six months.
“I think it says a lot about the deer. He was a very healthy, strong deer,” Monica Schuler said. She was there when officers made the rescue.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife had already tried three times to tranquilize the deer.