(My Version) Proposed -The Best 17Th Century North 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: Sep 16, 2020
• ISBN: 9781664131132

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgements

The Big Question

Disclaimer

Preface

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Proposed Food and Food Sources Available to First North Carolina Slaves for Thanksgiving And Christmas Menus in the 1600s

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

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

Chapter 5 Proposed North Carolina Appetizer Courses Recipes

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

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

Chapter 8 Proposed North Carolina First Slaves Starch Accompanminents Recipes

Chapter 9 Proposed North Carolina First Slaves Vegetable Accompaniements Recipes

Chapter 10 Proposed North Carolina First Slaves Bread Recipes

Chapter 11 Proposed North Carolina First Slaves Dessert Courses Recipes

Chapter 12 Proposed North Carolina First Slaves Beverages and Snacks Recipes

Chapter 13 Inventions by Africans and African -Americans

Chapter 14 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’

gifts of 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 North Carolina Cookbook Book Series

is dedicated to the Guinea and

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 North 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 North America before the forming of United States. The slaves were sold in slave selling auctions such as, Goree Island and Saint Louis. However, the talents of the North 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. Many women and girls were stolen while bathing or herding cows,

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 North 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.

THE BIG QUESTION

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. The slave narratives are important to see what slaves endured in the making of the each states and the thanks they received.

PREFACE

Each year a celebration of the history of First Thanksgiving dinner in the United States is noted about the arrival of the Pilgrims and the first dinner with some Indians. The date of 1621, but no mention of the slaves’ first Thanksgiving though some slaves arrived in America in the 1500s and 1619.

Therefore, the author has written eight books for the Series. The purpose of the Series –The author’s main purpose in writing the Series is to give some insights on how the First African Slaves could have celebrated there First Thanksgiving Dinner allegedly 85 years or more before the Pilgrims and Indians celebrated their dinner in 1621.

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 North Carolina Black Cooks First Thanksgiving and First Christmas Emanuel Cookbook is proposed to show what possible the first North Carolina slaves arrivals may have eaten for the two meals -Thanksgiving and Christmas. Records were not kept on the slaves festive meals. The North Carolina slaves were bought and sold by the Europeans settlers for clearing the land for planting and harvesting tobacco, 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 North 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!

Some African slaves were in America 65 years before the Pilgrims!

The name of the book (My Version) Proposed- The Best 17th Century North 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 North Carolina Slave Informants, regions of each tourist area and biblical scriptures.

Information About Slavery

Pre and Post Slavery

Slavery in America Before the Constitution

Slaves were brought into America in the 1500s along the coast of the Carolinas and the Gulf Coast.

The slaves, known as human cargo, were bought and brought to North America to clear land, plant and harvest crops to make white men rich.

Beginning in 1619, Virginia recorded its first slaves arrival. The southern planters were dependent on slaves labor to work in the fields of tobacco, cotton, rice and other duties across the plantation. The slave labor was free for more than three hundred years.

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, slaves 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 more than 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.

NORTH CAROLINA

(NC)

TAR HEEL STATE, OLD NORTH STATE

HISTORY:

First Europeans slave traders bought the first Guinea slaves into the North Carolina area in the 1600s. They bought the slaves in to clear the land and make a life for the white planters.

North Carolina was formed as an English Colony The first English colony in America was the first of 2 established by Sir Walter Raleigh in Roanoke 1585 and 1587. The colonists drove out the royal governor in 1775. The province’s congress was the first to vote for independence.

Slaves were transported from Guinea, Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean, to North Carolina by the slave traders and delivered to the North Carolina Coast. Records showed that most of the slaves were unloaded in Wilmington transported to the lower Cape Fear Region. North Carolina slaves also came from South Carolina, Georgia and the Chesapeake region of Virginia.

STATE DATA:

ECONOMY:

FAMOUS AFRICAN-AMERICAN NORTH CAROLINIANS" Include:

Micheal Jordan, William Rufus King Nina Simone, Sugar Ray Leonard, Max Roach, Charolotte Hawkins Brown

Tourist Attractions:

Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout National seashores; Great Smoky Mountains(half in Tennessee); Guilford Courthouse and Moore’s Creek parks. Revolutionary battle sites, Bennett Place northwest Durham; where General Joseph surrendered the last confederate army to General William Sherman’ Ft. Raleigh, Roanoke Island where Virginia Dare, first child of English parents in the New World was born August 18, 1589; Wright Brothers National Memorial, Kitty Hawk

COMMON ACTIONS ON NORTH CAROLINA PLANTATIONS DURING AND AFTER SLAVERY

1. After Slavery

I think slavery was a bad thing but when freedom come dere wux nothin’