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...
Основен автор: | Hodes, Martha Elizabeth. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
New Haven :
Yale University Press,
℗♭1997.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=52879 |
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Print version::
White women, black men. |
Съдържание:
- 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.