Notorious in the neighborhood [[electronic resource] ] : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / / Joshua D. Rothman
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Rothman Joshua D
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Notorious in the neighborhood [[electronic resource] ] : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / / Joshua D. Rothman
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.84/6/09755 |
| Soggetto topico: | Interracial marriage - Virginia - History |
| Miscegenation - Social aspects - Virginia - History | |
| Racially mixed people - Virginia - History | |
| Interracial marriage - Law and legislation - Virginia - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Virginia Race relations History |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Notorious in the neighborhood |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908755-7-0 |
| 0-8078-6312-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910780368303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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