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1 online resource (343 p.) |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser |
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New York Academy of Sciences Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Series Editors' Preface -- Part I: An Appetizer -- Part II: Hunting, Harvesting, Starving, and the Occasional Feast -- Chapter 1: Food in the New World -- Document 1.1: The Cherokee Creation Story, "How the World Was Made, Wahnenauhi Version" -- Document 1.2: John Smith's History of the Starving Times at Jamestown Colony (1609) -- Document 1.3: English Artist John White's drawings of Native Americans fishing, cooking, and preparing corn (1580s) -- Document 1.4: Edward Winslow on the "First" Thanksgiving, 1621 |
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Document 1.5: A Micmac Perspective on Europeans' Way of Life, near Quebec (c. 1677) -- Document 1.6: John Winthrop, Jr., Report to the Royal Society of London on Indian Corn (1662) -- Document 1.7: Observations on American Vegetables Versus English Vegetables, from John Josselyn, New-England's Rarities Discovered (1672), and Francis Higginson, New-England's Plantation (1630) -- Document 1.8: A Soldier's Perspective on the Revolutionary War, Selections from the Memoir of Private Joseph Plumb Martin (1777) |
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Document 1.9: A General's Perspective: A Letter from General Horatio Gates to Major General Caswell (August 3, 1780) -- Document 1.10: Selections from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1791) on Communal Eating and Vegetarianism -- Chapter 2: Food, Foodways, and Conflict in the Early Republic -- Document 2.1: Amelia Simmons, American Cookery (1796), "Preface," and Selected Recipes -- Document 2.2: The Preface, Introduction, and Assorted Recipes from Mary Randolph, The Virginia House-Wife (1824) -- Document 2.3: Unidentified artist, Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (Painting, c. 1805) |
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Document 2.4: John Lewis Krimmel, The Quilting Frolic (Painting, 1813) -- Document 2.5: Excerpt from Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia (1824), Chapter 5, "Beasts and Birds" -- Document 2.6: Selections from English Phrenologist George Combe, Notes on the United States During a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40, vol. II. (1841) -- Document 2.7: A Variation of the Lyrics of "Home Sweet Home," a Popular Song of the Early Republic (c. 1830) -- Reference -- Part III: Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century |
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Chapter 3: Slavery and Food in the Old South -- Document 3.1: Selections from Frederick Douglass, Memoirs on Food and Slavery (1845) -- Document 3.2: Excerpts from Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) on Slaves' Weekly Rations, Punishments for Slaves' Stealing Food from Master, and Slave Taste Testers for Master -- Document 3.3: Images of the Antebellum South -- Document 3.4: Excerpts from Daniel R. A. C. Hundley, Social Relations in Our Southern States (1860) |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Document 3.5: Selections from Planter James Battle Avirett, The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War (1901) |
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Electronic books
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118936405 |
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111893640X |
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