{"id":374000,"date":"2010-02-25T22:37:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23365"},"modified":"2010-02-25T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T03:37:56","slug":"the-virginia-colonists-at-jamestown-practiced-cannibalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374000","title":{"rendered":"The Virginia Colonists at Jamestown Practiced Cannibalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Here is another chapter from Russ Kick&#8217;s classic bite-size Disinformation book<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0971394288\/disinformation\">50 Things You&#8217;re Not Supposed to Know<\/a><\/em>, inspired by historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardzinn.org\/default\/index.php\">Howard Zinn<\/a>, who passed away earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For more on Russ Kick check out his website, <a href=\"http:\/\/thememoryhole.com\">The Memory Hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">_____________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23366 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"Jamestown\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Jamestown.jpg\" alt=\"Jamestown\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During the harsh winter of 1609\u20131610, British subjects in the famous colony of Jamestown, Virginia, ate their dead and their shit. This fact doesn\u2019t make it into very many U.S. history textbooks, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.gov\/cmsportal3\"><\/a>state&#8217;s official website apparently forgot to mention it in their history section.<\/p>\n<p>When you think about it rationally, this fact should be a part of mainstream history. After all, it demonstrates the strong will to survive among the colonists. It shows the mind-boggling hardships they endured and overcame. Yet the taboo against eating these two items is so overpowering that this episode can\u2019t be mentioned in conventional history.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, an unconventional historian, Howard Zinn, revealed this fact in his classic, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061965588\/disinformation\">A People\u2019s History of the United States<\/a><\/em>. Food was so nonexistent during that winter, only 60 out of 500 colonists survived. A government document from that time gives the gruesome details:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another chapter from Russ Kick&#8217;s classic bite-size Disinformation book 50 Things You&#8217;re Not Supposed to Know, inspired by historian Howard Zinn, who passed away earlier this year. For more on Russ Kick check out his website, The Memory Hole. _____________________________________________________ During the harsh winter of 1609\u20131610, British subjects in the famous colony of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-374000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}