The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture by Vincent Woodard, Dwight A. McBride, Justin A. Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson

The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture

Vincent Woodard, Dwight A. McBride, Justin A. Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson

320 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvati...

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challenging 85%
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tense 23%
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