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Notorious in the neighborhood : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / Joshua D. Rothman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rothman, Joshua D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Interracial marriage--Virginia--History.
- Interracial marriage.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory)--Social aspects--Virginia--History.
- Miscegenation (Racist theory).
- Multiracial people--Virginia--History.
- Multiracial people.
- Interracial marriage--Law and legislation--Virginia--History.
- Virginia--Race relations--History.
- Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890875570
- 9780807863121
- 0807863122
- OCLC:
- 476237415
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