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Suspect relations : sex, race, and resistance in colonial North Carolina /

Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by illicit sexual relationships and the sanctions imposed on those who conducted them. Fischer shows how the personal -- and yet often v...

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Main Author: Fischer, Kirsten, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002.
Subjects and Genres:
Indians of North America > North Carolina > Social conditions > 18th century.
African Americans > North Carolina > Social conditions > 18th century.
Man-woman relationships > North Carolina > History > 18th century.
Sex role > North Carolina > History > 18th century.
Social classes > North Carolina > History > 18th century.
Government, Resistance to > North Carolina > History > 18th century.
North Carolina > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
North Carolina.
North Carolina > Race relations.
North Carolina > Social conditions > 18th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Changing Conceptions of Race
  • 1
  • 1.
  • Disorderly Women and the Struggle for Authority
  • 13
  • 2.
  • Cross-Cultural Sex in Native North Carolina
  • 55
  • 3.
  • The Sexual Regulation of Servant Women and Subcultures of Resistance
  • 98
  • 4.
  • White Reputations "Blacken'd & Made Loose"
  • 131
  • 5.
  • Sexualized Violence and the Embodiment of Race
  • 159
  • Epilogue: Dangerous Liaisons
  • 191.
  • Introduction: Changing Conceptions of Race
  • Disorderly Women and the Struggle for Authority
  • Cross-Cultural Sex in Native North Carolina
  • The Sexual Regulation of Servant Women and Subcultures of Resistance
  • White Reputations "Blacken'd and Made Loose"
  • Sexualized Violence and the Embodiment of Race
  • Epilogue: Dangerous Liaisons.

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