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,…, loc. 280