Table of contents : Contents Introduction: Why the Fight against Hunger Mattered Part One: Power Rising 1. Hunger, Accommodation, and Violence in Colonial America 2. Iroquois Food Diplomacy in the Revolutionary North 3. Cherokee and Creek Victual Warfare in the Revolutionary South Part Two: Power in Flux 4. Black Victual Warriors and Hunger Creation 5. Fighting Hunger, Fearing Violence after the Revolutionary War 6. Learning from Food Laws in Nova Scotia Part Three: Power Waning 7. Victual Imperialism and U.S. Indian Policy 8. Black Loyalist Hunger Prevention in Sierra Leone Conclusion: Why Native and Black Revolutionaries Lost the Fight Acknowledgments Bibliographic Note Notes Index