Rothman, Joshua D.

Notorious in the neighborhood sex and families across the color line in Virginia, 1787-1861 / [electronic resource] : Joshua D. Rothman. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003. - xiii, 341 p. ; 25 cm.

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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Interracial marriage--History.--Virginia
Miscegenation--Social aspects--History.--Virginia
Racially mixed people--History.--Virginia
Interracial marriage--Law and legislation--History.--Virginia


Virginia--Race relations--History.


Electronic books.

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