Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy Division
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ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Genealogy Division Subject Catalog, 1976-1984: A-O
Author: Indiana State Library. Genealogy Division
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Virginiana in the Printed Book Collections of the Virginia State Library: Subjects
Author: Virginia State Library
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
White Women, Black Men
Author: Martha Hodes
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300173679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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 white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation. Hodes provides details of the wedding of a white servant-woman and a slave man in 1681, an antebellum rape accusation that uncovered a relationship between an unmarried white woman and a slave, and a divorce plea from a white farmer based on an adulterous affair between his wife and a neighborhood slave. Drawing on sources that include courtroom testimony, legislative petitions, pardon pleas, and congressional testimony, she presents the voices of the authorities, eyewitnesses, and the transgressors themselves—and these voices seem to say that in the slave South, whites were not overwhelmingly concerned about such liaisons, beyond the racial and legal status of the children that were produced. Only with the advent of black freedom did the issue move beyond neighborhood dramas and into the arena of politics, becoming a much more serious taboo than it had ever been before. Hodes gives vivid examples of the violence that followed the upheaval of war, when black men and white women were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and unprecedented white rage and terrorism against such liaisons began to erupt. An era of terror and lynchings was inaugurated, and the legacy of these sexual politics lingered well into the twentieth century.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300173679
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
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 white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation. Hodes provides details of the wedding of a white servant-woman and a slave man in 1681, an antebellum rape accusation that uncovered a relationship between an unmarried white woman and a slave, and a divorce plea from a white farmer based on an adulterous affair between his wife and a neighborhood slave. Drawing on sources that include courtroom testimony, legislative petitions, pardon pleas, and congressional testimony, she presents the voices of the authorities, eyewitnesses, and the transgressors themselves—and these voices seem to say that in the slave South, whites were not overwhelmingly concerned about such liaisons, beyond the racial and legal status of the children that were produced. Only with the advent of black freedom did the issue move beyond neighborhood dramas and into the arena of politics, becoming a much more serious taboo than it had ever been before. Hodes gives vivid examples of the violence that followed the upheaval of war, when black men and white women were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and unprecedented white rage and terrorism against such liaisons began to erupt. An era of terror and lynchings was inaugurated, and the legacy of these sexual politics lingered well into the twentieth century.
The Dameron-Damron Genealogy
Author: Helen Foster Snow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Norfolk County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Norfolk County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Virginia Genealogies
Index to the Virginia Genealogist, Volumes 1-20, 1957-1976
Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia: Sources
Author: Robert Noel Grant
Publisher:
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Category : Prince Edward County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
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Category : Prince Edward County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.