Notorious in the neighborhood
Subtitle: sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861
By: Joshua D. Rothman.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Interracial marriage -- Virginia -- History; Miscegenation -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History; Racially mixed people -- Virginia -- History; Miscegenation -- Law and legislation -- Virginia -- History; Virginia -- Race relations -- History
Description: 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 supportedand undermined racism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.
Table of contents: title: Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, James Callender, and sex across the color line under slavery; title: Notorious in the neighborhood; title: The church and the brothel are only separated by a pane of glass; title: The strongest passion that can possibly aggitate the human mind; title: To be free from thate curs and let at liberty; title: Let there be but two races among us.