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White women, Black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South /
"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. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which whit...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
©1997.
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Table of Contents:
- 1.
- Telling the Stories
- 2.
- Marriage: Nell Butler and Charles
- 3.
- Bastardy: Polly Lane and Jim
- 4.
- Adultery: Dorothea Bourne and Edmond
- 5.
- Color: Slavery, Freedom, and Ancestry
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- Wartime: New Voices and New Dangers
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- Politics: Racial Hierarchy and Illicit Sex
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- Murder: Black Men, White Women, and Lynching.