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Author Rothman, Joshua D.

Title Notorious in the neighborhood : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / Joshua D. Rothman.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description xiii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-330) and index.
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.
Subject Interracial marriage -- Virginia -- History.
Interracial marriage.
Virginia.
History.
Miscegenation -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History.
Miscegenation -- Social aspects.
Miscegenation.
Racially mixed people -- Virginia -- History.
Racially mixed people.
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Virginia -- History.
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation.
Virginia -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
ISBN 0807854409 paperback alkaline paper
0807827681 cloth alkaline paper