“Look’d Like Milk”: Breastmilk Substitutes in New England’s Borderlands

By Carla Cevasco Captured by the Abenaki in 1724, the English colonist Elizabeth Hanson fretted as “my daily Travel and hard Living made my Milk dry almost quite up.” As Hanson recorded in her captivity narrative, God’s Mercy Surmounting Man’s Cruelty (1728), she watched her baby become “very poor a...

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spelling ftopenedition:oai:hypotheses.org:recipes/5448 2023-05-15T12:58:50+02:00 “Look’d Like Milk”: Breastmilk Substitutes in New England’s Borderlands carlacevasco 2015-04-02T06:00:48Z http://recipes.hypotheses.org/5448 unknown The Recipes Project http://recipes.hypotheses.org/5448 post 2015 ftopenedition 2017-03-09T15:44:46Z By Carla Cevasco Captured by the Abenaki in 1724, the English colonist Elizabeth Hanson fretted as “my daily Travel and hard Living made my Milk dry almost quite up.” As Hanson recorded in her captivity narrative, God’s Mercy Surmounting Man’s Cruelty (1728), she watched her baby become “very poor and weak,” so thin that she could “perceive all its Joynts from one End of the Babe’s Back to the other.” Among English women taken captive by Native Americans in colonial New England, food shortag. Other/Unknown Material abenaki OpenEdition
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description By Carla Cevasco Captured by the Abenaki in 1724, the English colonist Elizabeth Hanson fretted as “my daily Travel and hard Living made my Milk dry almost quite up.” As Hanson recorded in her captivity narrative, God’s Mercy Surmounting Man’s Cruelty (1728), she watched her baby become “very poor and weak,” so thin that she could “perceive all its Joynts from one End of the Babe’s Back to the other.” Among English women taken captive by Native Americans in colonial New England, food shortag.
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