Food and eating in America : a documentary reader

Content: Intro
 Title Page
 Table of Contents
 Series Editorsâ#x80
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 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, â#x80
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How the World Was Made, Wahnenauhi Versionâ#x80
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 Document 1.2: John Smithâ#x80
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s History of the Starving Times at Jamestown Colony (1609)
 Document 1.3: English Artist John Whiteâ#x80
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s drawings of Native Americans fishing, cooking, and preparing corn (1580s)
 Document 1.4: Edward Winslow on the â#x80
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 Thanksgiving, 1621 Document 1.5: A Micmac Perspective on Europeansâ#x80
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 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, Newâ#x80
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s Rarities Discovered (1672), and Francis Higginson, Newâ#x80
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s Plantation (1630)
 Document 1.8: A Soldierâ#x80
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s Perspective on the Revolutionary War, Selections from the Memoir of Private Joseph Plumb Martin (1777) Document 1.9: A Generalâ#x80
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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), â#x80
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 and Selected Recipes
 Document 2.2: The Preface, Introduction, and Assorted Recipes from Mary Randolph, The Virginia Houseâ#x80
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Wife (1824)
 Document 2.3: Unidentified artist, Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians (Painting, c. 1805) 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, â#x80
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Beasts and Birdsâ#x80
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 Document 2.6: Selections from English Phrenologist George Combe, Notes on the United States During a Phrenological Visit in 1838â#x80
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40, vol. II. (1841)
 Document 2.7: A Variation of the Lyrics of â#x80
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Home Sweet Home,â#x80
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 a Popular Song of the Early Republic (c. 1830)
 Reference
 Part III: Fields and Foods in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 3: Slavery and Food in the Old SouthDocument 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 Slavesâ#x80
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 Weekly Rations, Punishments for Slavesâ#x80
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 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)