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Author Rothman, Joshua D.

Title Notorious in the neighborhood [electronic resource] : 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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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiii, 341 p.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807827681 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807854409 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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