TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herrmann,Rachel B.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution 
SN  - 9781501716133
AV  - E269.I5 
U1  - 973.3 23
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Food
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Food security
KW  - Sierra Leone
KW  - Nova Scotia
KW  - United States
KW  - To 1896
KW  - 1763-1867
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Indians
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : why the fight against hunger mattered -- Hunger, accommodation, and violence in colonial America -- Iroquois food diplomacy in the revolutionary North -- Cherokee and Creek victual warfare in the revolutionary South -- Black victual warriors and hunger creation -- Fighting hunger, fearing violence after the Revolutionary War -- Learning from restrictive food laws in Nova Scotia -- Victual imperialism and U.S. Indian policy -- Black loyalist hunger prevention in Sierra Leone -- Conclusion : why native and black revolutionaries lost the fight; Open Access
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/68982/
ER  -