Posted on 03/18/2015 6:31:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown in Virginia, wrote that settlers ate horses, then cats and dogs, then boots and bits of leather, and, finally, one another. "One of our colony murdered his wife, ripped the child out of her womb and threw it into the river, and after chopped the mother in pieces and salted her for his food," wrote Percy, who then ordered the man executed. "Now whether she was better roasted, boyled or carbonado'd (barbecued), I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of," added the famed settler John Smith.
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Oh bull hockey.
Salacious steaming pile.
So she was a pregnant 14 year old and the baby was tossed in the river?
Doesn’t sound like this was about eating the meat out of desperation and the man responsible was executed.
I’d wager he wasn’t on death row 20 years, either.
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While the colonists of Plymouth had five kernels of corn each (per meal or per day, can’t remember) to survive.
They were Godly men and women and did not revert to cannibalism.
When they had their great feast the following Autumn, on each person’s plate had five kernels of corn, so they would remember when times weren’t so plentiful.
That was the period where everything was held in common. Starvation is the most common outcome of collectivization.
Scott Walker’s fault!
Oh my God. You mean Disney did not have it correct?
What is wrong with these people that they could not eat squirrels. Or other stuff crawling around the woods. Its not like there were so many of them that they had to walk for miles to shoot a squirrel.
More liberal bullcrap to smear white people. Way too much wild game and natural veegetation, not to mention fish, for them to resort to that.
It was the arrival of two ships from Bermuda that saved the colony. Those ships were had been wrecked in a storm and were initially stranded in Bermuda. There the would be colonists repaired them and with their holds full of sea turtles and birds, they were with difficult to proceed to Jamestown. There they found the starving and dehydrated colony that was trying to return to England. A prolonged drought had also fouled their water. The arrival of those two battered ships probably changed history.
The colonists of Plymouth were a very different type of people from the Jamestown settlers. There were some cultural distinctions in the regions.
I tend toward believing the accounts of the Jamestown letter-writers.
"That crocodile was gonna eat me alive!"
"Oh I wouldn't hold that against him......that thought crossed my mind once or twice."
They were under siege.
That’s Entertainment!
“The colonists of Plymouth were a very different type of people from the Jamestown settlers.”
Oh, absolutely. That was my point.
“Carbonado” is definitely a word that needs to make a comeback...
I’ve never understood why these people couldn’t catch a fish, a pigeon, or a rodent. Or even rob a bird’s nest.
Collectivism in that situation was a necessity. They were a very small isolated society with no reliable trading partners. (The indians themselves were largely collectivists)
They starved because they were unprepared with little hope of resupply.
How about turtles? Clams...no clams in the vicinity?? The recollections of the survivors sound an awful lot like a 4 Yorksiremen skit.
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