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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455484803321

Autore

Rothman Joshua D

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003

ISBN

0-8078-6312-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Disciplina

306.84/6/09755

Soggetti

Interracial marriage - Virginia - History

Miscegenation - Social aspects - Virginia - History

Racially mixed people - Virginia - History

Interracial marriage - Law and legislation - Virginia - History

Electronic books.

Virginia Race relations History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.