(My Version) Proposed the Best 17Th Century South Carolina Black Cooks: First Thanksgiving and Christmas Emanuel Cookbook

By Sharon Kaye Hunt R.D.

The Eight Book Series are dedicated to the First Slaves’ Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners Celebrations in the United States who arrived before 1600s. The first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims has made history since 1621. The first slaves arrived in South Carolina in the 1520s. Even though slavery was very harsh, the slaves were able to create meals from whatever 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: May 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781984579669

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Disclaimer

Preface

Chapter 1     Introduction

Chapter 2     Proposed Food and Food Sources Available to First South Carolina Slaves for Thanksgiving And Christmas Menus in the 1520s.

Chapter 3     South Carolina First Slaves Proposed First Thanksgiving and Snacks Menus

Chapter 4     South Carolina First Slaves Proposed First Christmas and Snack Menus

Chapter 5     Proposed South Carolina Appetizer Courses Recipes

Chapter 6     Proposed South Carolina First Slaves Soups and Stews Courses Recipes

Chapter 7     Proposed South Carolina First Slaves Entrees or Meat Courses Recipes

Chapter 8     Proposed South Carolina First Slaves Starch Accompanminents Recipes

Chapter 9     Proposed South Carolina First Slaves Vegetable Accompaniements Recipes

Chapter 10   Proposed South Carolina First Slaves Bread Recipes

Chapter 11   Proposed South Carolina First Slaves Dessert Courses Recipes

Chapter 12   Proposed South Carolina First Slaves Beverages and Snacks Recipes

Chapter 13   Black Inventors and Their Inventions

DEDICATION

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

and she dedicates all her work to Him. Also, she dedicates the Book

Series to all descendants of slaves, and to the world as a whole who has

profited from the slaves’ food knowledge and preparation methods.

"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.

The author’s father always stated to his family that his

mother was a ‘Geechee’ and she owned a Hebrew Bible. He

also said that he was a Black Hebrew or Black Israelite.

He said he was a member of the tribe of Benjamin. There

are 12 tribes mentioned in the Book of Revelations.

The South Carolina Cookbook Book Series is dedicated to the

Geechee/Gullah people in the area especially in the low country.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The early day historians recorded the arrival of the slave ships with human cargo and supplies.

The slave traders only told of areas from which the slaves were purchased. Some of the slave traders ships arrived on South Carolina shores more than 600 years ago. The European slave traders also traded food supplies, such as molasses, rice, flour and spices from Africa.

The slave ships came from Africa through the Middle Passage 0f the Atlantic Ocean to the shores of what is now America. The slaves were sold in slave selling auctions such as, Goree Island and Saint Louis. However, the talents of the South Carolina slaves could have been similar to not only West Africa, but also, South Africa, North Africa, East Africa or some African Islands.

Some slaves say they were stolen from their homes.

The Geechee/Gullah culture has food traditions and basket weaving skills similar to Africans on the Nile River where Moses was born. They also prefer the popular spices used int cooking similar to those people.

The author wishes to acknowledge the South Carolina slaves who endured being traded and sold from Africa to all parts of the world as well as the United States.

They endured finding their own way without formal reading and writing skills as well as cooking skills.

Why should the slaves celebrate First Thanksgiving and First Christmas? Their Journey?

PSALM 107:1

O GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, FOR HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER.

DISCLAIMER

The information about slaves food selection and menu development were developed by the author. All recipes were developed by the author and do not represent ideas of others. The recipes were based on what possible ingredients the slaves may have obtained in the late 1500s.

Biblical scriptures were selected by the author.

Selected Bible verses are based on giving thanks to the Lord.

PSALM 92:1

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High.

The author is not responsible for the former slaves languages. The Slaves Narratives are in the public domain by the Library of Congress.

PREFACE

Each year a history of First Thanksgiving in the United States is noted. The date of 1621, but no mention of the slaves first Thanksgiving though that some slaves arrived in the 1500s and 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 prepared 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 and utilized for documentation.

The Book Series on the Best 17th Century South Carolina Black Cooks First Thanksgiving and First Christmas Emanuel Cookbook is proposed to show what possible the first South Carolina slaves arrivals may have eaten for the two meals -Thanksgiving and Christmas. Records were not kept on the slaves festive meals. The South Carolina slaves were bought and sold for the rice and indigo crops. In foods, the slaves prepared and ate some foods different from their white masters. However, plantation slave cooks prepared all their masters’ meals for centuries.

In each of the slave states, the slaves cultivated various food dishes from available food sources.

Many slaves came from different areas of Africa and adopted various foods of the American Indian tribes.

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

Why should South Carolina Slaves celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas?

The Bible says: In everything -GIVE THANKS! I Thessalonians 5:18

For example, the slaves made the journey -some didn’t!

The name of the book (My Version) Proposed- The Best 17th Century South Carolina Black Cooks’ First Thanksgiving and First Christmas Emanuel Cookbook. The cookbook is centered around what the slaves may have prepared for their menus and how they may have prepared the recipes.

Each part is divided into food items, information about the state, pre- and post emancipation slavery reviews, emancipated South Carolina Slave Informants, regions of each tourist area 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 slaves 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.

15 th 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 Juneteeth. 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.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Major international airport(s) at: Charleston, Greenville, Spartanburg, Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Florence

FAMOUS AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOUTH CAROLININAS:

Clayton Peg Leg Bates, Mary McLeod Bethune, James Brown, Chubby Checkers, Mary McLeod Bethune, James Brown, Chubby Checkers, Viola Davis, Larry Doby, Marian Wright Edelman, Joe Frazier, Charlaryne Hunter-Gault, Althea Gibson, Dizzy Gillespie, Eartha Kitt, Benjamin Elijah Mays, Ron McNair, Robert Small, Denmark Vessey, Sylvia Woods

Tourist Attractions: Slave market -Charleston, Charleston Harbor

Area, Coastal islands: Edisto, Myrtle Beach, Fort Sumter National Monument at Charleston Harbor; Charleston Museum established 1773, is the oldest museum in the United States.

Three European explorers had Africans with them when they sailed to the area in 1500s the area of

South Carolina.

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 Africa.

South Carolina, known as a slave colony in the 1520s, had slaves transported into the area in 1526 by a large Spanish expedition from West Indies planter who transported the slaves from Barbados. These Spanish explorers established the largest slave plantations in the Carolinas harvesting indigo and rice.

Some of the slaves called themselves Geechee/Gullah people.

I. Places and

Regions in South Carolina

South Carolina Association of Tourist Region

1. The Low Country and Resort Island

Beaufort, Collecton, Hampton and Jasper Counties

2. Lake Hartwell Country

Anderson, Oconee and Pickens Counties

3. Old 96 District

Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens and McCormack Counties

4. Capital City /Lake Murray Country

Livingston, Richland, Newberry and Saluda Counties

5. Old English District

Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Union and York Counties

6. Santee Cooper Country

Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Orangeburg and Sumter Counties.

7. Myrtle Beach -The Grand Stand

Horry and Georgetown Counties

8. Historic Charleston and Resort Islands

Charleston and Dorchester Counties

9. Pee Dee Country

Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Lee, Marion, Willamsburg and Marlboro counties

II. The Sea Islands are a chain of barrier islands in the Atlantic Ocean of the Southeastern United States numbering over 100 that are located between the mouths of the Santee and the St. John Rivers along the coast of the United States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida.

South Carolina has at least 20 sea islands that are part of the lowcountry food traditions.

1. Daufuskie Island

2. Hilton Island

3. Paris Island

4. Port Royal Island

5. Ladies Island

6. Morgan Island

7. Wadslaw Island

8. Charleston Island

9. Coosaw Island

10. Pitchard Islamd

11. Helena Island

12. Hunting Island

13. Edisto Island

14. John Island

15. Sullivan Island

16. Kismah Island

17. James Island

18. Isle of Palms

19. Phillips Island

20. Eutaw Island

South Carolina has 47 Counties

Biblical Scripture

PHILLIPIANS 4:6

Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made