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“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