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List of cannibalism stories of Europeans eating enslaved black people WITH SOURCES
1. The Peggy (1765): When this American ship was blown off course and faced starvation, the white crew selected, killed, and ate an enslaved Black man on board after shooting him in the head. One of the crew ate the victim's raw liver; some of the rest of the body was cooked, and the remainder was pickled.Source: Korn, Daniel; Radice, Mark; Hawes, Charlie (2001). Cannibal: The History of the People-Eaters. London: Channel 4 Books. p. 122.
2. The Arrogante (1837): When British anti-slavery patrols seized this Portuguese slave ship near Cuba, the freed West Africans provided formal testimonies. The survivors reported "that one of the Africans on board the Arrogante had been murdered, and that, subsequently, the sailors had cooked pieces of his body and served them with rice to the rest of the Africans.” Half a dozen witnesses had seen "how the Portuguese sailors took Mina behind a sail that they had put up across the deck to stop the rest of the Africans from witnessing what was about to happen." One "who had peeped through the holes in the sail ... described how they cut Mina's throat 'with a long knife'". Several enslaved girls saw how "the flesh of Mina had been cut into small pieces and cooked in the big pot destined for the Africans." One of them added "that the sailors had also cooked the liver and heart of Mina in their own smaller pot, and then had eaten those parts themselves", and another witness confirmed this observation.Source: Barcia, Manuel (22 July 2021). "White Cannibalism in the Illegal Slave Trade: The Peculiar Case of the Portuguese Schooner Arrogante in 1837"Source : Barcia 2021, p. 13Source: Barcia 2021, pp. 14–15.
3. The Desecration of Nat Turner (1831): After leading his rebellion, Turner was executed. "His body was given over to the surgeons for dissection. He was skinned to supply such souvenirs as purses, his flesh made into grease, and his bones divided as trophies to be handed down as heirlooms. It is said that there still lives a Virginian who has a piece of his skin which was tanned, that another Virginian possesses one of his ears and that the skull graces the collection of a physician in the city of Norfolk."-- John W. Cromwell, "The Aftermath of Nat Turner's Insurrection," 1920
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The Commercialization of "Crisp" Organs: During the 1899 public burning of Sam Hose (Sam Holt) in Georgia, contemporary newspapers like The Atlanta Constitution explicitly recorded the financial market that emerged around his body. After Hose was burned at the stake, the white mob immediately rushed the ashes with knives. His heart and liver were sliced into pieces. The newspaper reported that slices of his crisply cooked liver were sold on-site for 10 cents, and fragments of his bones were sold for 25 cents. Those who bought the organs did so to take them home, display them, or consume parts of them in local folk medicine practices.Source: https://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/html/1996/nd96/right.lynch.html
5. The Murder of Claude Neal (Florida, 1934):In one of the most depraved and heavily documented lynchings in American history, a white mob captured Claude Neal. Before hanging and riddling his body with bullets, the mob subjected him to hours of torture. Members of the mob severed his genitalia and forced Neal to eat his own body partswhile he was still alive. After his death, his fingers and toes were cut off, and his remains were fought over by a crowd of thousands who demanded to physically possess pieces of his flesh.Source: Woodard, Vincent (2014). The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture. New York: New York University Press. pg. 171
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1. The Peggy (1765): When this American ship was blown off course and faced starvation, the white crew selected, killed, and ate an enslaved Black man on board after shooting him in the head. One of the crew ate the victim's raw liver; some of the rest of the body was cooked, and the remainder was pickled.Source: Korn, Daniel; Radice, Mark; Hawes, Charlie (2001). Cannibal: The History of the People-Eaters. London: Channel 4 Books. p. 122.
2. The Arrogante (1837): When British anti-slavery patrols seized this Portuguese slave ship near Cuba, the freed West Africans provided formal testimonies. The survivors reported "that one of the Africans on board the Arrogante had been murdered, and that, subsequently, the sailors had cooked pieces of his body and served them with rice to the rest of the Africans.” Half a dozen witnesses had seen "how the Portuguese sailors took Mina behind a sail that they had put up across the deck to stop the rest of the Africans from witnessing what was about to happen." One "who had peeped through the holes in the sail ... described how they cut Mina's throat 'with a long knife'". Several enslaved girls saw how "the flesh of Mina had been cut into small pieces and cooked in the big pot destined for the Africans." One of them added "that the sailors had also cooked the liver and heart of Mina in their own smaller pot, and then had eaten those parts themselves", and another witness confirmed this observation.Source: Barcia, Manuel (22 July 2021). "White Cannibalism in the Illegal Slave Trade: The Peculiar Case of the Portuguese Schooner Arrogante in 1837"Source : Barcia 2021, p. 13Source: Barcia 2021, pp. 14–15.
3. The Desecration of Nat Turner (1831): After leading his rebellion, Turner was executed. "His body was given over to the surgeons for dissection. He was skinned to supply such souvenirs as purses, his flesh made into grease, and his bones divided as trophies to be handed down as heirlooms. It is said that there still lives a Virginian who has a piece of his skin which was tanned, that another Virginian possesses one of his ears and that the skull graces the collection of a physician in the city of Norfolk."-- John W. Cromwell, "The Aftermath of Nat Turner's Insurrection," 1920
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The Commercialization of "Crisp" Organs: During the 1899 public burning of Sam Hose (Sam Holt) in Georgia, contemporary newspapers like The Atlanta Constitution explicitly recorded the financial market that emerged around his body. After Hose was burned at the stake, the white mob immediately rushed the ashes with knives. His heart and liver were sliced into pieces. The newspaper reported that slices of his crisply cooked liver were sold on-site for 10 cents, and fragments of his bones were sold for 25 cents. Those who bought the organs did so to take them home, display them, or consume parts of them in local folk medicine practices.Source: https://harvardmagazine.com/sites/default/files/html/1996/nd96/right.lynch.html
5. The Murder of Claude Neal (Florida, 1934):In one of the most depraved and heavily documented lynchings in American history, a white mob captured Claude Neal. Before hanging and riddling his body with bullets, the mob subjected him to hours of torture. Members of the mob severed his genitalia and forced Neal to eat his own body partswhile he was still alive. After his death, his fingers and toes were cut off, and his remains were fought over by a crowd of thousands who demanded to physically possess pieces of his flesh.Source: Woodard, Vincent (2014). The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within US Slave Culture. New York: New York University Press. pg. 171
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