The delectable Negro : human consumption and homoeroticism within U.S. slave culture / Vincent Woodard ; edited by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride ; foreword by E. Patrick Johnson.

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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 starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Sexual cultures.
Main Author:	Woodard, Vincent, 1971-2008 (Author)
Other Authors:	Joyce, Justin A. McBride, Dwight A.
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Series:	Sexual cultures.
Subjects:	Enslaved persons > Southern States > Social conditions. African American men > Southern States > Social conditions. Plantation life > Southern States > History. Starvation > Social aspects > Southern States > History. Cannibalism > Social aspects > Southern States > History. Consumption (Economics) > Social aspects > Southern States > History. Male homosexuality > Social aspects > Southern States > History. Slavery in literature. African American men in literature. American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gay Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies.
Physical Description:	xiv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format:	Book

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