The Delectable Negro Quotes

“Painter confirms that “then, as now, the sexual abuse of young women by men is deplored but recognized as common. Less easily acknowledged, then and now, is the fact that there are women who violated children.”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

“This is not to say that white women did not rape and entice black men on the plantation; they did.”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

“He was born to a free mother and an enslaved father in Wilmington, North Carolina. Yet he understood slavery as fundamentally a system of appetite and consumption.”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

“On a separate occasion, at a meeting Truth convened in Indiana in 1858, the female itinerant preacher found herself challenged outright as a man and not a woman.”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

“Within this clandestine material culture of consumption, whites maintained emotional, affectionate, romantic, erotic, and disguised intimate ties with blacks that contradicted the commonly held notion that cannibalism was unnatural to civilized Westerners.”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

“Romans accused Christians of consuming human blood in their rituals, a contested accusation that is still debated among contemporary scholars.”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

“I asked them if we were not to be eaten by those white men with horrible looks, red faces, and long hair.”19”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture

“For example, one of the most notorious incidents of literal black consumption from the nineteenth century involved members of the whaling ship Essex, which sailed from Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1838. White Nantucketers still today have little to say about the incident, especially the fact that the first four crew members to be murdered and eaten by whites were black.”
― Vincent Woodard, The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism within U.S. Slave Culture