 Slaves on many Jamaican plantations were not properly fed, because of inadequate provisions grounds, and they often resorted to stealing cane in order to address their hunger during periods of drought.In 1755–56, a similar issue affected Egypt, and when a slave named Scotland was caught stealing corn and plantains, the watchman shot him and chopped him to death.During Tacky's War in 1760, and subsequent slave revolts that decade, Thistlewood writes about the fear the planters felt about the possible success of this uprising.