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Nonwhites in China & Africa sold human meat in markets until early modern times
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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:27 AM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, Contemporary reports indicate that in Shaanxi – located between Henan and Sichuan – cannibalism became so common in the early Qing period that the local government "officially sanctioned" the sale and consumption of human flesh. Butchers legally turned towards killing people sold to them and then "sell[ing] their meat"; human-based dishes were also served in restaurants.[42] The History of Ming, one of the Official Dynastic Histories that documented cannibalistic acts, accepted them as inevitable in bad times.
Reports of cannibalism and the sale of human flesh continued into the early 20th century, up to the final years of Imperial China.[46] Various cases were reported during the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879,[47] with eyewitnesses reporting the sale of human flesh in markets and butcher shops and various rumours indicating that it might also have been served in restaurants.[48]
In 1936, a severe drought in Sichuan worsened by the ongoing civil war led to a famine killing up to five million people and causing large-scale cannibalism.[55] Human flesh became a traded commodity, with a higher black-market price charged for fresh flesh from a person killed for food compared to flesh from a corpse.[56]
Outside of famines, the flesh of executed criminals was frequently sold for consumption in China, a traditional custom that lasted until the 19th century.[49]
Cannibalism is also documented to have occurred in rural China during the severe famine that resulted from the Great Leap Forward (1958–1962).[58] During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), local governments' documents revealed hundreds of incidents of cannibalism for ideological reasons, including large-scale cannibalism during the Guangxi Massacre.[59] Cannibal acts occurred at public events organized by local Communist Party officials, with people taking part in them to prove their revolutionary passion. |
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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:34 AM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, Outside of famines, the flesh of executed criminals was frequently sold for consumption in China, a traditional custom that lasted until the 19th century.[49]
The indigenous population of Taiwan (then known as Formosa) repeatedly rebelled against Chinese rule. The Chinese army reacted drastically by not only killing suspected rebels but sometimes also eating and selling their flesh.[50][51] The American journalist James W. Davidson wrote:
One horrible feature of the campaign against the savages was the sale by the Chinese in open market of savage flesh.... After killing a savage, the head was commonly severed from the body and exhibited.... The body was then either divided among its captors and eaten, or sold to wealthy Chinese and even to high officials, who disposed of it in a like manner. The kidney, liver, heart, and soles of the feet were considered the most desirable portions, and were ordinarily cut up into very small pieces, boiled, and eaten somewhat in the form of soup. The flesh and bones were boiled, and the latter made into a sort of jelly.... During the outbreak of 1891, savage flesh was brought in – in baskets – the same as pork, and sold like pork in the open markets of Tokoham before the eyes of all, foreigners included. Some of the flesh was even sent to Amoy [on the mainland] to be placed on sale there. It was frequently on sale in the small Chinese villages near the border, and often before the very eyes of peaceful groups of savages who happened to be at the place.[52]
Newspaper reports also document the open sale of indigenous flesh.[51] Robert des Rotours has interpreted these acts as due to "contempt for an inferior race", who were seen as so inferior that they could be treated like animals.[53] |
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Date: February 19th, 2026 10:40 AM Author: ,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,,..,.,.,.,.,..,.,, Missionaries and travellers report that human flesh was offered for sale at markets "in many parts of Nigeria".[44][55] According to clergyman and archdeacon George Basden, who spent more than 30 years in the country, in some southern regions, it had a well-established market price and was sold much like any other commodity; it usually came from war captives, kidnapped strangers, and purchased or bartered slaves.[56] While travelling near Onitsha around the year 1900, Basden found out that his servants and carriers had all repeatedly eaten human flesh. Once they were sure that he bore them no ill will, they talked freely about the custom, including their preferred body parts. He noted that they were "quite good-natured folk", with one of them later becoming "a much-respected evangelist".[47]
The consumption of kidnapped strangers or purchased slaves could hardly be due to hatred, and indeed the British anthropologist Charles Kingsley Meek found that the most frequent rationale he heard from cannibals or former cannibals in northern Nigeria was that human flesh was eaten "purely as meat". People did not want to waste an opportunity to eat good meat when they saw one, and the lives of enemies or outsiders were of no concern to them.[57] His colleague Percy Amaury Talbot [fr] observed the same among the Igbo and some other inhabitants of southern Nigeria: human flesh was eaten because of a "great longing for meat". Most people considered meat a rare luxury and saw no reason to be squeamish about how they got it as long as it did not come from relatives or friends. Moreover, human flesh was preferred over that of animals for gastronomic reasons: it was considered the tastiest of all meats because of its "succulence" and sweetness (followed by monkey meat as second best). Young children were most appreciated, since "the younger the person, the tenderer are the 'joints'".[58][59] |