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Subject:	Re: The Starving Time
From:	MCPS <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:	Fri, 3 May 2013 19:38:08 -0400
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Among the original accounts dealing with the Jamestown starving time and cannibalism is one case that resulted in the death penalty as punishment for the "cannibal" (who, as I recall, had been the husband). Then there was the Donner Party in the 1840's when it was said that cannibalism occurred among the people who became stranded in a blizzard when trying to get across the mountains (in Utah?).  Judging such horrors should not be easy when contemplating the desperate circumstances of starvation and other misery.

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On May 3, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Martha Katz-Hyman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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