Title: Notorious in the Neighborhood
Subtitle: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
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.
Subjects: History, Miscegenation, Interracial marriage, Race relations, Racially mixed people, Social aspects of Miscegenation, Law and legislation, Virginia, history, Social aspects
Places: Virginia