LEADER 04586nam 2200781 450 001 9910455282203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-300-06970-7 010 $a0-300-17367-9 010 $a0-585-37195-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300173673 035 $a(CKB)111004366653002 035 $a(EBL)3421444 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000271344 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12079437 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000271344 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10293684 035 $a(PQKB)10663913 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001651358 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16426281 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001651358 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14977184 035 $a(PQKB)11551847 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421444 035 $a(DE-B1597)486048 035 $a(OCoLC)1059278486 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300173673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421444 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10888221 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL623746 035 $a(OCoLC)923605691 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366653002 100 $a19970306h19971997 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhite women, Black men $eillicit sex in the nineteenth-century South /$fMartha Hodes 210 1$aNew Haven, Connecticut :$cYale University Press,$d[1997] 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (352 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-306-92495-2 311 $a0-300-07750-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [287]-325) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Telling the Stones --$t2. Marriage Nell Butler and Charles --$t3. Bastardy Polly Lane and Jim --$t4. Adultery Dorothea Bourne and Edmond --$t5. Color Slavery, Freedom, and Ancestry --$t6. Wartime New Voices and New Dangers --$t7. Politics Racial Hierarchy and Illicit Sex --$t8. Murder Black Men, White Women, and Lynching --$tEpilogue --$tSearching for Stories A Note on Sources --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America's past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation.Hodes provides details of the wedding of a white servant-woman and a slave man in 1681, an antebellum rape accusation that uncovered a relationship between an unmarried white woman and a slave, and a divorce plea from a white farmer based on an adulterous affair between his wife and a neighborhood slave. Drawing on sources that include courtroom testimony, legislative petitions, pardon pleas, and congressional testimony, she presents the voices of the authorities, eyewitnesses, and the transgressors themselves-and these voices seem to say that in the slave South, whites were not overwhelmingly concerned about such liaisons, beyond the racial and legal status of the children that were produced. Only with the advent of black freedom did the issue move beyond neighborhood dramas and into the arena of politics, becoming a much more serious taboo than it had ever been before. Hodes gives vivid examples of the violence that followed the upheaval of war, when black men and white women were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and unprecedented white rage and terrorism against such liaisons began to erupt. An era of terror and lynchings was inaugurated, and the legacy of these sexual politics lingered well into the twentieth century. 606 $aSex role$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSex customs$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen, White$xSexual behavior$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American men$xSexual behavior 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions$yTo 1865 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSex role$xHistory 615 0$aSex customs$xHistory 615 0$aWomen, White$xSexual behavior 615 0$aAfrican American men$xSexual behavior. 676 $a306.7/0975/09034 700 $aHodes$b Martha Elizabeth$01028511 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455282203321 996 $aWhite women, Black men$92444545 997 $aUNINA