The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within US Slave Culture

Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation

Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced…