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Starving Settlers in Jamestown Colony Resorted to Cannibalism
smithsonianmag.com ^
| May 01, 2013
| Joseph Stromberg
Posted on 05/02/2013 3:41:19 AM PDT by kimtom
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Could we end up here again???
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:41:19 AM PDT
by
kimtom
To: kimtom
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:44:26 AM PDT
by
kimtom
(USA ; Freedom is not Free)
To: kimtom
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:49:23 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: kimtom
We’ve already been there. Recall how the former Clinton loving press turned on her and consumed her when Obama came on the scene.
To: kimtom
Nope.
There are no written records of this ever happening.
Jamestown was recorded extensively and nothing like this ever came up except the observations that the Iroquois and other tribes engaged in cannibalism as a spiritual act, not of nutrition.
There were “claims” by some who fled the colony but, they were discounted, as there were no names of those who might have engaged in this disgusting act.
I don’t have any idea why these so called scientists would engage in this synthetic conjecture...
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:51:44 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: kimtom
A Tale of Two Colonies "Reflections restricted to our current bounty ignore that most colonists in both Jamestown and Plymouth starved under their initial communal-property rights. Then, when private-property rights were established, starvation gave way to increasing prosperity in both colonies." http://mises.org/daily/4855
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:57:30 AM PDT
by
outofsalt
("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
To: kimtom
Naaaaaaaaativve Ammurriccans?
Looks like the “tomahawk chop” to me.
This kinda thing happened to a LARGE PERCENTAGE of “ immigrants” up thru the Little Big Horn up until Wounded Knee—when it stopped.
Schenectady NY, my old stomping grounds, was ONLY wiped out THREE times back in the day.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:01:55 AM PDT
by
Flintlock
("The British are coming--to TAKE OUR GUNS"--Paul Revere)
To: kimtom
I am no cannibal, but if I were going to be one, I certainly wouldn’t start by eating the brain. I would start looking for some of the more choice cuts.
I think this scientist is full of crap and probably believes the people in Jamestown started Global Warming too.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:08:55 AM PDT
by
Venturer
To: kimtom
A deceptive headline for a junk article.
The modern liberal just can’t resist cannibalizing history.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:13:04 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(Life, liberty, property, family, RKBA, sovereignty, security, borders, independence, the oath.)
To: Vendome
According to the article, there are written records of new graves being opened and bodies being removed for consumption.
To: Flintlock
your post came to mind.
The body may have been laid to rest there because of other
circumstances,and was a victim.
It isn't PC to talk about American Indian atrocities (anymore).
But Humans do strange things when faced with starvation.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:43:55 AM PDT
by
kimtom
(USA ; Freedom is not Free)
To: kimtom
Socialism leads to hard times. Didn’t Jamestown have a socialist set-up? Everybody sharing everybody’s crops? Until nobody wanted to work...just waited for their ‘fair share’.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:47:48 AM PDT
by
abclily
To: abclily
Not really. The original settlement was run by a company for several years, until Virginia was made a crown colony.
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posted on
05/02/2013 5:07:30 AM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(Life, liberty, property, family, RKBA, sovereignty, security, borders, independence, the oath.)
To: DuncanWaring
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posted on
05/02/2013 5:11:26 AM PDT
by
kimtom
(USA ; Freedom is not Free)
To: kimtom
Isn’t this in the same vein as Jefferson’s Black love child?
Or what?
To: kimtom
Not the same story; a different telling.
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posted on
05/02/2013 5:57:26 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: kimtom
Soylent green.
Most certainly.
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posted on
05/02/2013 5:59:37 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Vendome
It’s not saying who engaged in it, only that it happened.
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posted on
05/02/2013 6:00:41 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: kimtom
I’ve heard that the mind stops thinking and becomes quite savage under starvation conditions.
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posted on
05/02/2013 6:02:23 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: Vendome
Yep. Revisionist po-mo twaddle concocted to cast European settlers as barbarians.
Meanwhile, the real butchers like the heart-ripping Aztecs and the predatory natives get the “Dances with Wolves” treatment.
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posted on
05/02/2013 6:07:07 AM PDT
by
IronJack
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