Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Rothman, Joshua D.
ISBN: | 9780807863121 |
Publisher: | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Published: | 31 March, 2003 |
Format: | eBook |
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Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861
Rothman, Joshua D.
Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the full spectrum of interracial sexual relationships under slavery-from Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and the intertwined interracial families of Monticello and Charlottesville to commercial sex in Richmond, the routinized sexual exploitation of enslav
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