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Author Rothman, Joshua D.

Title Notorious in the neighborhood : sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / Joshua D. Rothman.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.8460975 R745n 2003    ---  Available
Description xiii, 341 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.
Contents Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, James Callender, and sex across the color line under slavery -- Notorious in the neighborhood -- The church and the brothel are only separated by a pane of glass -- The strongest passion that can possibly aggitate the human mind -- To be free from thate curs and let at liberty -- Let there be but two races among us.
Subject Interracial marriage -- Virginia -- History.
Miscegenation -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History.
Racially mixed people -- Virginia -- History.
Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Virginia -- History.
Virginia -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN 0807854409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807827681 (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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