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First published 2019 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Herrmann, Rachel B., author.

Title: No useless mouth : waging war and fighting hunger in the American Revolution / Rachel B. Herrmann.

Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018060505 (print) | LCCN 2019001071 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501716133 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501716126 (ret) | ISBN 9781501716119 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subjects: LCSH: United States—History—Revolution, 1775–1783—Indians. | United States—History— Revolution, 1775–1783—African Americans. | Food security—United States—History—18th century. | Food security—Nova Scotia—History—18th century. | Food security—Sierra Leone—History—18th century. | Indians of North America—Food—History—18th century. | African Americans—Food—History—18th century. | Nova Scotia—History—1763–1867. | Sierra Leone—History—To 1896.

Classification: LCC E269.I5 (ebook) | LCC E269.I5 H47 2019 (print) | DDC 973.3—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060505

Cover image: Plan of Civilization, unidentified artist (n.d.). Courtesy of the Greenville County Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds from the Museum Association’s 1990 and 1991 Collectors Groups and the 1989, 1990 and 1991 Museum Antiques Shows, sponsored by Elliott, Davis & Company, CPAs Corporate Benefactors: Ernst and Young; Fluor Daniel; Mr. and Mrs. Alester G. Furman III; Mr. and Mrs. M. Dexter Hagy; Thomas P. Hartness; Mr. and Mrs. E. Erwin Maddrey II; Mary M. Pearce; Mr. and Mrs. John D. Pellett, Jr.; Mr. W. Thomas Smith; Mr. and Mrs. Edward H. Stall; Eleanor and Irvine Welling.