Engraving with the caption: 'The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil./She only sulks -- go lash her to her toil'. In this print, the exhausted woman is instructed to return to work by a slave driver who carries his whip and is clearly ready to use it. Strikingly, the slave driver is a black man. The complex hierarchies within enslaved society and the corrupting influence of slavery as an institution meant that it was not only white men who abused the enslaved.

Pregnant women were expected to continue their arduous work in the sugar fields until just before they gave birth, and to return to work very soon afterwards.