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

By: Rothman, Joshua D.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003Description: xiii, 341 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Interracial marriage -- Virginia -- History | Miscegenation -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History | Racially mixed people -- Virginia -- History | Interracial marriage -- Law and legislation -- Virginia -- History | Virginia -- Race relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.84/6/09755 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.