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Author: Sharon Block Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807838934 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 293
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In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.
Author: Sharon Block Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 0807838934 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 293
Book Description
In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more than nine hundred documented incidents of sexual coercion and hundreds more extralegal commentaries found in almanacs, newspapers, broadsides, and other print and manuscript sources. Highlighting the gap between reports of coerced sex and incidents that were publicly classified as rape, Block demonstrates that public definitions of rape were based less on what actually happened than on who was involved. She challenges conventional narratives that claim sexual relations between white women and black men became racially charged only in the late nineteenth century. Her analysis extends racial ties to rape back into the colonial period and beyond the boundaries of the southern slave-labor system. Early Americans' treatment of rape, Block argues, both enacted and helped to sustain the social, racial, gender, and political hierarchies of a New World and a new nation.
Author: Ronald Ames Hill Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 416
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Reuben Ball, son of Benjamin Ball, was born in about 1780, probably in Fauquier County, Virginia. He married Mary Harding in 1801 in Green County, Kentucky. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and Nebraska.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : South Carolina Languages : en Pages : 270
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Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Daniel Holder who was born ca. 1758 in Prince William Co., Virginia. He was the son of Davis Holder and Susanna (surname unknown). Daniel married Ruth Welborn ca. 1787 in Randolph Co., North Carolina. They lived in Union Co., South Carolina and were the parents of two sons and six daughters. Descendants lived primarily in South Carolina.
Author: Howard William Burdett Publisher: ISBN: Category : Virginia Languages : en Pages : 808
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William Burdett, Sr. was born in about 1755 in Prince William, Virginia. His father was John Burdett, Sr. He married Sarah Cornwell (1762-1817). They had fourteen children. William died in 1839 in Flat Top, Monroe, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia and West Virginia.
Author: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1312619406 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 713
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Volume 1 of 8, TOC and pages 1-504. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.
Author: Michal Sobel Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400820499 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 376
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In the recent past, enormous creative energy has gone into the study of American slavery, with major explorations of the extent to which African culture affected the culture of black Americans and with an almost totally new assessment of slave culture as Afro-American. Accompanying this new awareness of the African values brought into America, however, is an automatic assumption that white traditions influenced black ones. In this view, although the institution of slaver is seen as important, blacks are not generally treated as actors nor is their "divergent culture" seen as having had a wide-ranging effect on whites. Historians working in this area generally assume two social systems in America, one black and one white, and cultural divergence between slaves and masters. It is the thesis of this book that blacks, Africans, and Afro-Americans, deeply influenced white's perceptions, values, and identity, and that although two world views existed, there was a deep symbiotic relatedness that must be explored if we are to understand either or both of them. This exploration raises many questions and suggests many possibilities and probabilities, but it also establishes how thoroughly whites and blacks intermixed within the system of slavery and how extensive was the resulting cultural interaction.
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