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Author Hodes, Martha

Title White women, black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South
Published New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Telling the Stones -- Part One: Neighborhood Dramas -- 2 Marriage: Nell Butler and Charles -- 3 Bastardy: Polly Lane and Jim -- 4 Adultery: Dorothea Bourne and Edmond -- 5 Color: Slavery, Freedom, and Ancestry -- Part Two: Escalating Violence -- 6 Wartime: New Voices and New Dangers -- 7 Politics: Racial Hierarchy and Illicit Sex -- 8 Murder: Black Men, White Women, and Lynching -- Epilogue -- Searching for Stories: A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F
Gh -- i -- j -- k -- l -- m -- n -- o -- p -- r -- s -- t -- u -- v -- w -- y
Summary Annotation This 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. In telling a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, Martha Hodes explores the complex ways in which white Southerners tolerated these relationships in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved
Notes Originally published: 1997
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Subject Sex customs -- Southern States -- History
Interracial dating -- Southern States -- History
Man-woman relationships -- Southern States -- History
HISTORY -- General.
Interracial dating
Man-woman relationships
Manners and customs
Race relations
Sex customs
SUBJECT Southern States -- Race relations
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125665
Subject Southern States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300173673
0300173679
0300077505
9780300077506