To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic

by Rachel B. Herrmann

Book Overview

Long before the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, colony and its Starving Time of 1609-1610--one of the most famous cannibalism narratives in North American colonial history--cannibalism, and accusations of cannibalism, played an important role in the history of food, hunger, and moral outrage. Why did colonial invaders go out of their way to accuse women of cannibalism? What challenges did Spaniards face in trying to explain Eucharist rites to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1682260828
• ISBN13: 9781682260821
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"