Title The Devil's lane : sex and race in the early South / edited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie

Published New York, New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 274 pages) : illustrations Contents "The facts speak loudly enough" : exploring early Southern Black history / Peter H. Wood -- Clio's daughters : Southern colonial women and their historians / Carol Berkin -- Wallowing in a swamp of sin : Parson Weems, sex, and murder in early South Carolina / Catherine Clinton -- "Changed ... into the fashion of man" : the politics of sexual difference in a seventeenth-century Anglo-American settlement / Kathleen M. Brown -- Indian foremothers : race, sex, slavery, and freedom in early Virginia / Peter Wallenstein -- Rape, race, and castration in slave law in the colonial and early South / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Kith and kin : women's networks in colonial Virginia / Joan R. Gundersen -- "For their satisfaction or redress" : African Americans and church discipline in the early South / Betty Wood -- Crimes of love, misdemeanors of passion : the regulation of race and sex in the colonial South / Paul Finkelman -- "False, feigned, and scandalous words" : sexual slander and racial ideology among whites in colonial North Carolina / Kirsten Fischer -- Interracial sects : religion, race, and gender among early North Carolina Moravians / Jon F. Sensbach -- Passion, desire, and ecstasy : the experiential religion of Southern Methodist women, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- The sexual politics of race and gender : Mary Musgrove and the Georgia trustees / Michelle Gillespie -- "In consideration of her enormous crime" : rape and infanticide in Spanish St. Augustine / Jane Landers -- Coping in a complex world : free Black women in colonial New Orleans / Kimberly S. Hanger -- "A chaos of iniquity and discord" : slave and free women in of color the Spanish ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould -- African women in French and Spanish Louisiana : origins, roles, family, work, treatment / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Summary Land contested over by settlers in the early South was named "the devil's lane" with violence often befalling those who ventured there. These essays on sexuality, race and gender in the South from the 17th to 19th century, explore legal history through race, crime, punishment and slander Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 9, 2021) Subject Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 17th century Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions HISTORY -- State & Local. History. African American women -- Social conditions Race relations Sex role Enslaved women -- Social conditions Women -- Social conditions SUBJECT Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125644 Southern States -- Race relations Subject Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Clinton, Catherine, 1952- Gillespie, Michele. ISBN 1423759648 9781423759645 1602561796 9781602561793 1280453656 9781280453656 9780195112436 0195112431 9786610453658 6610453659 9780199854271 0199854270

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