Cannibal Jameson Whisky Shocker – Did You know James Jameson bought a Girl so he could watch her Being eaten !
James Jameson
Another American beneficiary with ties to cannibalism was James Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish whiskey fortune, though this time he was the one doing the cannibalising. During an expedition to the Congo, he requested to witness cannibalism firsthand. The team’s solution: to purchase him a 10-year-old girl and watch her be cannibalized in front of him. Jameson wrote about the ordeal in his diary, accompanying them with sketches.
When James Jameson Bought A Girl Just To Watch Her Be Eaten By Cannibals
James Jameson used his power and privilege to do the unspeakable — and get away with it.
James S. Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune.
In the 1880s, an heir to the vast Jameson Irish Whiskey fortune bought a 10-year-old girl just so he could draw her being eaten by cannibals.
James S. Jameson was the great-great-grandson of John Jameson, the founder of the famed Irish Whiskey company, and as such was heir to the family fortune.
Like many rich heirs of the era, Jameson considered himself something of an adventurer, and would tag along on the expeditions of more accomplished explorers.
In 1888, he joined the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, led by renowned explorer Henry Morton Stanley, across central Africa. The journey was ostensibly to bring supplies to Emin Pasha, the leader of an Ottoman province in Sudan that was cut off by a revolt.
James Jameson Picture
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James S. Jameson
In reality, the expedition had a second purpose: to annex more land for the Belgian Free State colony in the Congo.
It was on this expedition that James Jameson would commit his unspeakable crime.
Varying accounts exist of the incident, from Jameson’s diary, his wife, and a translator on the trip, but what they all agree on is that by June 1888, Jameson was in command of the rear column of the expedition at Ribakiba, a trading post deep in the Congo known for its cannibal population.
They also say that Jameson were dealing directly with Tippu Tip, a slave trader and local fixer.
According to Assad Farran, a Sudanese translator on the trip, Jameson expressed interest in seeing cannibalism first hand.
Tippu Tip
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Tippu Tip, a famed slave trader who worked in the area.
Farran would later tell Stanley, when he returned to check up on the rear column, his account of the events, and would later recount them in an affidavit that was published by the New York Times.
He said that Tippu then talked to the chiefs of the village and produced a 10-year-old slave girl, who Jameson paid six handkerchiefs for.
According to a translator, the chiefs then said to their villagers, “This is a present from a white man, who wishes to see her eaten.”
“The girl was tied to a tree,” said Farran, “the natives sharpened their knives the while. One of them then stabbed her twice in the belly.”
In James Jameson’s own diary he then wrote, “Three men then ran forward, and began to cut up the body of the girl; finally her head was cut off, and not a particle remained, each man taking his piece away down the river to wash it.”
Both of them also agree on another count: the girl never screamed throughout the ordeal.
Emin Relief Expedition
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Drawing of the Emin Relief Expedition on its way through the Congo.
“The most extraordinary thing was that the girl never uttered a sound, nor struggled, until she fell,” wrote Jameson.
“Jameson, in the meantime, made rough sketches of the horrible scenes,” recounted Farrad in his later testimony. “Jameson afterward went to his tent, where he finished his sketches in watercolors.”
In his own diary, Jameson oddly doesn’t even fully deny making these drawings, writing, “When I went home I tried to make some small sketches of the scene while still fresh in my memory.”
In his account in his diary and his wife’s later account of the incident, the two attempt to play it off as though Jameson went along with the proceedings because he believed it be a joke, and could not imagine that the villagers would actually kill and eat a child.
Emin Pasha Leaders
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Henry Morton Stanley (center; seated) with the officers of the Advance Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.
However, this account fails to explain why Jameson would pay exactly six handkerchiefs, likely an amount he would have had to procure, for something he didn’t believe would happen.
It also fails to explain why he even attempted to sketch the horrifying event after the murder.
Likely, the account of his crime is true, but James Jameson never faced justice. He died shortly after the accusations of his misconduct made their way to to Stanley in 1888 from a fever he had contracted.
Jameson’s family, with the help of the Belgian government, were able to hush up many of the atrocities, this mission became the last of its kind.
Non-scientific civilian expeditions into Africa were suspended after this time, though military and governmental ones would continue.
All because of the crimes of a whiskey heir and the brave interpreter who told the world what he did.
Perhaps the most shocking act of cannibalism on this list is that of Rick Gibson. In 1988 and again in 1989, Gibson ate human flesh in public in London. England has no law against cannibalism (which Gibson described as “marvellous”) meaning his public meals of human-tonsil-canape and human-testicle-hors d’oeuvre were perfectly legal.
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Six Handkerchiefs for the Cannibals: The Infamous “Jameson Affair” Dec
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This article originally appeared on #ILLUSTRATI n. 54 – “Se questo è un uomo”
From James W. Buel, Heroes of the Dark Continent, 1889
In 1885, the state of Congo became private property of King Leopold II of Belgium. During the 23 years of this colonial domination, the king never set foot in this country; yet he exploited its resources and enslaved its inhabitants, causing 8 to 30 million deaths, which means he literally halved the local population. The Force Publique, a militia established by the king to spread terror, used to torture and mutilate men, women, and children, thus writing one of the most shameful and bloody pages of European colonialism.
James S. Jameson
Such an inhuman context was the setting for the scandal of James ‘Sligo’ Jameson, heir of a famous Irish whisky distillery still operating today. A naturalist, hunter and explorer, Jameson joined the Emin Pascià Relief Expedition led by Sir Henry Morton Stanley in 1886. Despite the stated objective of this expedition was to provide aid to the Emin Pasha who was under siege, its real task was to expand Belgian settlements on Congolese territory. On February 25, the soldiers left Zanzibar, heading to the heart of what was then called “Black Africa”. The scandal happened when they arrived in Ribakiba (a town known today as Lokandu).
According to Assad Farran, Jameson’s interpreter, during a meeting with the local tribe leaders, the Irish gentlemen showed his curiosity for the practice of cannibalism. “In England we hear much about cannibals who eat people, but being myself in the place, I would like to see it in person”, he said. The tribe leaders confirmed that anthropophagy was quite common in that area, and they suggested Jameson to offer a slave as a gift to one of the neighbour villages. So, for the ridiculous price of six handkerchiefs, Jameson bought a 10-year-old girl.
On reaching the native huts the girl, who was led by the man who had brought her, was presented to the cannibals. The man told them: “This is a present from the white man. He wants to see how you eat her”. The girl was taken and tied by the hands to a tree. About five natives were sharpening knives. Then a man came and stabbed her with a knife twice in the belly. The girl did not scream, but she knew what was going on. She was looking right and left, as if looking for help. When she was stabbed she fell down dead. The natives then came and began cutting her in pieces. One cut a leg, another an arm, another the head and breast, and another took the inner parts out of her belly. After the meat was divided, some took it to the river to wash it, and others went straight to their house. During all the time Mr. Jameson held a notebook and a pencil in his hand, making rough sketches of the scene.
Recontruction of Jameson’s sketches.
When Assad signed this sworn statement in 1890, four years after the events, Jameson was already dead. Since his description of the events was confirmed by another witness, the scandal broke out, and the word spread fast from Europe to the US, where the story was even published in the New York Times.
Jameson’s widow then tried to redeem the memory of his husband by publishing a letter he was supposed to have written on his deathbed. This writing provided a different version of the events: the whole thing happened so fast that Jameson was powerless to stop the carnage happening before his eyes. Yet in the letter (which many suspected to be a fake written by Jameson’s friends) there were some details—such as the six handkerchiefs used to buy the little girl—corresponding to the interpreter’s report: if the letter’s purpose was to restore a posthumous honour to Jameson, this strategy proved to be rather weak.
The situation became even more confused when Assad withdrew his charges, declaring he had been misunderstood. Yet, everyone could figure out that, in all likelihood, he had been forced to retract his accusations by Belgian officers.
Although a number of grey areas still remains, there is little doubt that the accident actually occurred. Another witness remembered that back then Jameson had no problems telling this story, and that he didn’t realise the gravity of his actions until long afterwards. “Life is very cheap in Central Africa; Mr. Jameson forgot how differently this terrible thing would be regarded at home.” During those dreadful years in Congo, while regularly committing massacres, Europeans treated natives like cattle. So, from the colonists’ point of view, six handkerchiefs were clearly worth a gory and unforgettable show.
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