No useless mouth : waging war and fighting hunger in the American Revolution /
In the era of the American Revolution, the rituals of diplomacy between the British, Patriots, and Native Americans featured gifts of food, ceremonial feasts, and a shared experience of hunger. When diplomacy failed, Native Americans could destroy food stores and cut off supply chains in order to as...
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Cornell scholarship online.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : why the fight against hunger mattered
- Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America
- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North
- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South
- Black victual warriors and hunger creation
- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War
- Learning from restrictive food laws in Nova Scotia
- Victual imperialism and U.S. Indian policy
- Black loyalist hunger prevention in Sierra Leone
- Conclusion : why native and black revolutionaries lost the fight.