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America’s Socialist Failure

Surprisingly, the early American settlers at Jamestown and Plymouth instituted socialist communes to begin their experience in the New World. But they soon found that the concept was a miserable failure.

History professor Larry Schweikart of the University of Dayton shares the fascinating story of the socialism experiment and the rise of capitalism in this edition of PragerU.

Cannibalism in Swarms

Alex Dainis of Bit-Scized this week discusses cannibalism — first in locust swarms and then reports of cannibalism at the early American colony of Jamestown. It’s a frank discussion of a grisly topic, so viewer discretion is advised.

Jamestown Cannibalism

The skull of a girl who died in the winter of 1610 shows signs of having been cannibalized by starving colonists at Jamestown, the early Virginia settlement. More from Newsy.

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