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Autore |
Rothman Joshua D |
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Titolo |
Notorious in the neighborhood : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / / Joshua D. Rothman |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908755-7-0 |
0-8078-6312-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (358 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Interracial marriage - Virginia - History |
Miscegenation - Social aspects - Virginia - History |
Racially mixed people - Virginia - History |
Interracial marriage - Law and legislation - Virginia - History |
Virginia Race relations History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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