White women, Black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hodes, Martha, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Subjects:
To 1899
Sex role > United States > History > 19th century.
Sex customs > United States > History > 19th century.
Women, White > Sexual behavior > United States.
African American men > Sexual behavior.
Rôle selon le sexe > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Vie sexuelle > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Blanches > Sexualité > États-Unis.
Hommes noirs américains > Sexualité.
PSYCHOLOGY > Human Sexuality.
SELF-HELP > Sexual Instruction.
Sex customs.
Sex role.
Social conditions.
United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
United States.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Telling the stories
  • Marriage: Nell Butler and Charles
  • Bastardy: Polly Lane and Jim
  • Adultery: Dorothea Bourne and Edmond
  • Color: slavery, freedom, and ancestry
  • Wartime: new voices and new dangers
  • Politics: racial hierarchy and illicit sex
  • Murder: Black men, White women, and lynching.

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