(My Version) the Best 17Th Century Alabama and Mississippi Black Cooks: First Thanksgiving and Christmas Emanuel Cookbook

By Sharon Kaye Hunt

The Eight Book Series is dedicated to the First Slaves’ Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners Celebrations in the United States. The Second Series covers the first slaves who arrived in the states of Alabama and Mississippi.
The first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims has made history since 1621.
In the history books, no mention has been made of the slaves’ Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners, who came with the French and Spanish explorers to the Alabama and Mississippi area as early as 1540s. Even though, the slaves were under harsh measures, their food heritage from West Africa and Ethiopia continue to be popular in Alabama and Mississippi.
Slavery was very harsh, however, the slaves were able to create meals from what ever was available. The slaves carved cooking and eating utensils from wood from different varieties of trees. Even though the slaves were treated terribly and prohibited from reading, writing, or going to church, the slaves were able to get patents and serve in the Civil War.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 8, 2020
• ISBN: 9781796096873

Sharon Kaye Hunt

Sharon Hunt, born in Nobletown and is a 1965 graduate of Wewoka High School. She graduated with B.S. and M.S Degrees from Oklahoma State University. She did further study at Kansas State University. Ms. Hunt is a retired registered dietitian and worked as a dietitian at St. Luke’s and Texas Children’s Hospitals in Houston, Texas. Ms. Hunt taught food and nutrition for more than forty years at Langston University and Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia. While at Fort Valley, Ms. Hunt wrote a cookbook Bread from Heaven and appeared on QVC Home Shopping Network three times. Ms. Hunt wrote the original recipe for the World Largest Peach Cobbler for Peach County, Georgia. Ms. Hunt co-founded the undergraduate chapter of Delta Sigma Theta at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and served as the charter president of the Warner Robins Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority in Warner Robins, Georgia. Currently, Ms. Hunt is retired from teaching and has begun a new career in African-American History. She has self-published 35 books on different aspects of history. She mainly writes about Oklahoma and Georgia. She hopes to be on the move to write 11th grade Black history books and to include more history about the slaves in eleventh grade history in the United States. Ms. Hunt promoted a Community Pride Sign to be placed in her hometown of Wewoka, Okla. On the African leader -Lawyer James Coody Johnson who assisted slaves and Native Americans. To get an understanding of slaves’ survival food, Ms. Hunt submitted a proposal to the Oklahoma Legislature to vote in the “Cornmeal-hoecake Bread” as Oklahoma’s official bread. Ms. Hunt is writing a series of books to show how the slaves may have celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners during their harsh times.The former slaves gave ideas about how they celebrated different holidays.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Disclaimer

Preface

Part I Alabama

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Part II Mississippi

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

References

DEDICATION

The author is thankful for the favor of Jesus Christ in giving in

her giving her ideas and she dedicates all her work for Him.

Also, she dedicates the Book Series to all descendants of slaves,

and to the world as a whole where has profited from the slaves

food knowledge and preparation method "Commit thy works to

the Lord and thy thoughts will be established." Proverbs 16:3

The author is especially thankful to her parents, Dewey and

Repol B. Hunt for their wealth of teaching about slavery.

DISCLAIMER

The information about slave’s food selection and menu

development were developed by the author. All recipes

were developed by the author and do not represent ideas

of others. Biblical scriptures were selected by the author.

PREFACE

Each year a history of First Thanksgiving on the United States is rated. The date of 1621, but no mention of the slaves first Thanksgiving slaves series though that some slaves arrived in 1619.

Therefore, the author has written eight books for the Series. The purpose of the Series – Proposed-Food Revelations from Heaven (Jehovah-Jireh) to First American slaves is to propose what the first slaves may have prepare and eaten for their first Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. To gain some insights into the slaves’ lives, some slave narratives that are in the public domain were consulted.

PART I

ALABAMA

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

The name of the book (My Version) Proposed- The Best 17th Century Alabama and Mississippi Black Cooks’ First Thanksgiving and Christmas Emanuel Cookbook. The cookbook is centered on what the slaves may have prepared for their menus and how they may have prepared the meals. The cookbook is divided into two parts – Part I -Alabama and Part II – Mississippi.

Each part is divided into food items, information about the state, pre- and post-emancipation slavery reviews, regions of each state and biblical scriptures.

INFORMATION ABOUT SLAVERY

PRE AND POST SLAVERY

Slavery in America before the Constitution

Beginning in 1619, the first slaves were brought to Virginia. The southern planters were dependent on slave’s labor to work in the fields or cotton, rice and other duties across the plantation. The slave labor was free.

When the Constitution was written, the slaveholders did not want Congress to be given the power to stop slave trade. The original Constitution was written in 1787. As a compromise, the writers of the Constitution agreed that Congress would not stop the slave trade for 20 years.

After 1808, how slaves could be brought into the country some states

Illegally imported slaves. However, slavery continued in some states were bought, sold and kept in slavery until the end of the Civil War in 1865.

The Civil War started in Sumter County, South Carolina in 1861. The Civil War was fought from 1861-1865. The troops were divided up into two sides the Union side, fought for America and the Confederate fought for secession. The Union had 596,670 killed, wounded, captured or went missing in action.

The Confederates had 490, 409 confederates soldiers were killed, wounded, captured or went missing in action.

Slavery was one of the causes why the Civil War broke out for the Emancipation was written by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, two years after the war began.

It stated the Emancipation Proclamation that all slaves in the antebellum states, the confederate states were free. It did not free the slaves in the states that were loyal to the Union. All slaves were freed after the ending of the Civil War.

Freedom came to most slaves after two years in slavery. Even though the Emancipation was issued in 1865, the end of slavery marked by the passing of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and the end of the Civil War in 1865.

The African slaves served 250 years of free labor in the building of the United States.

The Civil War Amendments

The 13th, 14th and 15th amendments are known as the Civil War Amendments. The 13th Amendment-Slaves freed. The amendment was approved in 1865. Not all slaves were freed at the end of the Civil War.

The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal.

The 14th Amendment:

The 14th Amendment was approved in 1868 to protect the right of the freed slaves. It along with the Bill of Rights, protects the rights of all citizens.

The amendment in part says nor shall any state deprive (deny) any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law (the right to be treated fairly, nor deny to any person within the jurisdiction (boundaries) the equal protection of the law.

15th Amendment

The 15th amendment approved in 1870

Guaranteed black male citizens the right to vote. Neither black nor white women had the right to vote until 1920.

Many of the slaves did not receive notification until later. For example, the Texas slaves did not receive the news until June.

Therefore, Texas African-Americans celebrate Juneteenth. June 19 was Emancipation Day in 1865.

Some Georgia former slaves celebrate May 12, 1865. Mississippi former slaves were given notification in December 1865. Mississippi did not ratify the 13th Amendment until later.

About Alabama

                      ALABAMA

                      (AL)

                      HEART OF DIXIE, COTTON STATE

                      SLAVE STATE: 1819- 1865

Alabama is a state located in the southeastern

Region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the East, Florida and the Gulf Mexico to the South and Mississippi to the West.

Origin of the name: Derived from a Choctaw Indian word meaning -Thicket clearers or vegetation gatherers -It was name of a Mushogean tribe that once occupied the area.

Slavery in Alabama

Three European explorers had Africans with them when they sailed to the area in 1540s to the area of Alabama. The first Europeans to explore the area were Spaniards under the command

Of Alonzo de Pineda in 1519. The ancestors of the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws and Chicksaws

Were the principal tribes of Alabama. In 1540 Hernanado De Soto claimed Alabama for Spain.

De Soto defeated the Creeks and Choctaws under Chief Tuscaloosa in a war near what is now Selma. De Soto came to Alabama looking for gold and silver.

De Soto, Cortes and Balboa explorers were said to have African slaves on the with them into Mexico, Guatemala, Mexico, Chile, Peru and Venezuela. The African slaves were said to be

From northern Africa and sub-Sahara Africa.

Even though the Spaniards held the area for more than 150 years, the French took up residence in 1681-1682. The French claimed Alabama as part of the French Louisiana after the Sieur de La Salle exploration of the Mississippi River. At that time the French claimed Mobile as the capital.

The United States claimed most of the area in the Louisiana Purchase.

Affricy Town, Alabama

Cud-Joe Lewis and wife Celia were on the ship Clotilda. The couple were different due to their speaking their language -Tarkar.

Cud-Joe Lewis formed a village called Affricky Town. There is a statue of Cud-Joe Lewis in front of a church he helped to erect in the Affricky Town, Alabama

Regions of Alabama

There are five major regions of Alabama.

Interviews of Alabama Former Slaves

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