APRIL 9
I had mentioned to Mr. Shand my having found a woman at
Hordley, who had been crippled for life, in consequence of her
having been kicked in the womb by one of the book-keepers.
He writes to me on this subject :—"I trust that conduct so
savage occurs rarely in any country. I can only say, that in my
long experience nothing of the kind has ever fallen under my
observation." Now although I have passed six months in
Jamaica, 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, and on another of my estates another
woman who had been similarly kicked by another white bookkeeper, 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 that " white book-keepers kick black women in the belly
from one end of Jamaica to the other ."
