White Cargo: the Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
“One eyewitness account was from George Percy, the last president of the colonial council, who later wrote up his recollections. He had seen near-constant fighting with the Native Americans, who made it impossible to stray much beyond the palisades, and then mass starvation set in, the prelude to a grim descent into cannibalism. After supplies of fish and corn ran out, ‘horses and other beasts’ were eaten by colonists. Next they caught ‘vermin . . . dogs and cats and rats and mice’, then they at...e ‘boots, shoes or any other leather’. There were frantic forays into the woods, which netted a few snakes and some ‘wild and unknown roots’. Finally, they dug up corpses. ‘Famine began to look so ghastly and pale in every face that nothing was spared to preserve life,’ Percy recalled. One man murdered his wife and ‘chopped her in pieces and salted her for his food’.16 The man was discovered with her partly eaten corpse and, on Percy’s orders, hung up by his thumbs till he confessed and then was executed.MoreLess
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