Notorious in the neighborhood : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 /
This text examines interracial sexual relationships under slavery. While laws militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War it was ubiquitous throughout the state. The customery toleration of sex across the colour line both supported and undermined racism.
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 语言: | 英语 |
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Chapel Hill ; London :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2003]
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| 丛编: | UNC Press law publications.
Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law. |
| 在线阅读: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=102040 |
书本目录:
- Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, James Callender, and sex across the color line under slavery
- Notorious in the neighborhood
- The church and the brothel are only separated by a pane of glass
- The strongest passion that can possibly aggitate the human mind
- To be free from thate curs and let at liberty
- Let there be but two races among us.