Posted on 03/18/2015 6:31:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
The early American settlers called it "the starving time," and accounts of the winter of 1609-1610 were so ghastly, and so morbid, that scholars weren't sure if the stories were true. George Percy, then president of the English settlement of Jamestown in Virginia, wrote that settlers ate horses, then cats and dogs, then boots and bits of leather, and, finally, one another. "One of our colony murdered his wife, ripped the child out of her womb and threw it into the river, and after chopped the mother in pieces and salted her for his food," wrote Percy, who then ordered the man executed. "Now whether she was better roasted, boyled or carbonado'd (barbecued), I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard of," added the famed settler John Smith.
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Indeed. The Plymouth settlers wanted to get away from a culture they rejected; many of the Jamestown settlers were get-rich-quick adventurers. I can definitely see the latter resorting to all sorts of things the former wouldn't do when times got tough.
I never could figure out the starvation times of the early settlers.
Hunting is hard (especially with matchlocks), but clams are easily dug, and the waters were teeming with fish back then.
Carbonado? Maybe that’s what they should have called the Chevy Blazer. At least the one my wife and I got stuck behind on NJ Route 17 N, blazing away on the side of the highway. We were returning home from our wedding in Ohio and spent the time we were stuck eating leftover cake and finishing off the last bottle of champagne.
At times the settlers were getting shot and killed by the local Indians whenever they left the fort.
Plus they had not yet invented AFDC or the Department of Health and Human Services.
I wouldn’t have a clue about clam digging because I have no experience with the ocean shores. I’m not sure how effective my freshwater fishing skills would be in the ocean.
In a midwestern environment I would be fine. I have considerable knowledge of native plants and animals. Freshwater clams just lay on the bottom. Crayfish can be found under rocks and in crevices. Freshwater fish are easy enough to catch with a hook and a line. I know which plants and mushrooms I can eat.
I’m not so sure. They could not get out of their palisade because they were picked off by the Indians if they went on hunting or fishing expeditions. I don’t know if they resorted to cannibalism but if you read the accounts, they were under siege and being starved out.
Oh, please. Any clawed animal could have made those marks. Why would a human go for the face and not the meaty part of the body first? An animal wouldn't have been able to remove the clothing, so would claw at the face.
Just another attempt to demonize the white European settlers.
I guess he didn't like veal.
“I never could figure out the starvation times of the early settlers.”
Same reason someone from the city could starve to death in an area full of wild game, fish, and vegetation.
Simple lack of knowledge.
If you don’t know how to hunt you wont get game.
If you don’t know how to fish you wont catch fish.
If you don’t know how to build a boat and make a net you wont net fish.
It was winter, even in the best time of spring finding enough vegetation to survive is almost impossible even for someone that knows what to look for. If you don’t know what to look for forget it, you can even poison yourself.
Don’t forget, Indians were also competing for the same food, areas could easily be hunted out.
Werent the peaceful native americans known for mutilating the bodies of the people they killed?
scalping, disembowelment, etc
Interesting that what passes for “research” these days is aiming towards a complete denial of God & His Sovereignty. If these researchers and sociologists can distort and make Christians look sub-human in the process—even better!
Seasonal, and a short season at that.
What IS that?
At the point of the highest starvation conditions they were also under siege by Powhatan indians who outnumbered their dwindling, starved people. No one could guard someone while they fished. Hunting put people out into the wood where awaited savages. The worst was in winter... adding to the stress and death. And they had no clean water, from lack of understanding and access to the free flowing river water— same reasons— no guards available.
Powhatan siege of their enclosure. They couldn’t go outside, for lack of people to guard the gatherers. so they starved inside.
I bet most people today couldn’t even feed themselves if all they had was a modern .22 pistol with only iron sights, much less feed a group of people.
I forage for wild plants for salads, no shrooms, but it’s not enough to live on.
Too many people have this wild belief they could take off and survive in the woods hunting, fishing, and gathering plants.
Coons’ wife in next frame put her hand on Biden— to say “that’s enough a@@hole!”. Uncle Pervie Plugs the plagiarist.
Forget everything you learned in your history books. America was founded by cannibals. And Muslims.
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