Notorious in the Neighborhood
Subtitle: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780807827680
Subjects: Black studies; Family & relationships; Racism & racial discrimination; Slavery & emancipation; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Miscegenation; History: American; Sociology; United States - 19th Century; Virginia; Racially mixed people; Discrimination & Racism; Minority Studies - Race Relations; United States - Antebellum Era; Social Science / African-American Studies; Thomas Jefferson; Sally Hemings; Monticello; Charlottesville; interracial sex; interracial families; slavery; Richmond, Virginia; History; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Interracial marriage; Social aspects
First sentence: The sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings was not an isolated or even unusual case in Virginia before the Civil War.