Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South / Diane Miller Sommerville.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sommerville, Diane Miller.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rape--Southern States--History--19th century.

Rape.

Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (428 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Not So Heinous as at First Might Be Supposed: Slave Rape, Gender, and Class in Old South Communities; 2 A Manifest Distinction between a Woman and a Female Child: Rape Law, Children, and the Antebellum South; 3 He Shall Suffer Death: Black-on-White Rape Law in the Early South; 4 The Very Helplessness of the Accused Appeals to Our Sympathy: Rape, Race, and Southern Appellate Law; 5 Against All Odds?: Free Blacks on Trial for Rape in the Antebellum South; 6 Rarely Known to Violate a White Woman: Slave Rape in Civil War–Era Virginia

7 Our Judiciary System Is a Farce: Remapping the Legal Landscape of Rape in the Post-Emancipation South8 Foul Daughter of Reconstruction?: Black Rape in the Reconstruction South; 9 The Old Thread-Bare Lie: The Rape Myth and Alternatives to Lynching; Epilogue; Appendix. Rape, Race, and Rhetoric: The Rape Myth in Historiographical Perspective; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-394) and index.

ISBN:

9798890871244

9780807876251

0807876259

OCLC:

476237542