No Useless Mouth : Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution /
"Argues that Native American and formerly enslaved communities lost the fight against hunger because white officials in the United States, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone curtailed the abilities of men and women to fight hunger on their own terms"--
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : why the fight against hunger mattered
- Power rising. Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America
- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North
- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South
- Power in flux. Black victual warriors and hunger creation
- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War
- Learning from food laws in Nova Scotia
- Power waning. Victual imperialism and U.S. Indian policy
- Black loyalist hunger prevention in Sierra Leone
- Conclusion : why native and black revolutionaries lost the fight.