They Didn’t Just Own Their Bodies: The Grisly History of Europeans Consuming Enslaved Africans (Cannibalism)
Disclaimer : There is credible historical scholarship documenting at least one unusually disturbing case of literal European cannibalism involving an enslaved African during the Atlantic slave trade , as well as substantial evidence of Europeans exploiting, dissecting, consuming, and commodifying Black bodies in other ways. However, it would be historically inaccurate to claim that Europeans routinely ate enslaved Africans. The strongest article is therefore one that distinguishes documented literal cannibalism from the broader history of bodily exploitation . By Niggle - the podcast There are some chapters of history so disturbing that people would rather dismiss them than examine the evidence. The history of European slavery in Africa and the Atlantic is filled with such chapters. Among the most horrifying is the historical evidence concerning Europeans and the literal consumption of African bodies. But this subject demands something more than sensatio...