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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 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
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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.
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.
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Subject Miscegenation -- Virginia -- History.
Miscegenation.
Virginia.
History.
Miscegenation -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History.
Miscegenation -- Social aspects.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Rothman, Joshua D. Notorious in the neighborhood. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003 0807827681 0807854409 (DLC) 2002007568 (OCoLC)49824701
ISBN 0807863122 (electronic book)
9780807863121 (electronic book)
9780807827680 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807827681 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807854402 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0807854409 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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