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The Devil's lane : sex and race in the early South
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- Creator
- edited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997
- Physical Details
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- xx, 274 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0195112423, 9780195112429, 0195112431, 9780195112436
- OCLC
- ocm36001228
- Includes bibliographical references.
- "The facts speak loudly enough" : exploring early Southern Black history / Peter H. Wood -- Clio's daughters : Southern colonial women and their historians / Carol Berkin -- Wallowing in a swamp of sin : Parson Weems, sex, and murder in early South Carolina / Catherine Clinton -- "Changed ... into the fashion of man" : the politics of sexual difference in a seventeenth-century Anglo-American settlement / Kathleen M. Brown -- Indian foremothers : race, sex, slavery, and freedom in early Virginia / Peter Wallenstein -- Rape, race, and castration in slave law in the colonial and early South / Diane Miller Sommerville -- Kith and kin : women's networks in colonial Virginia / Joan R. Gundersen -- "For their satisfaction or redress" : African Americans and church discipline in the early South / Betty Wood -- Crimes of love, misdemeanors of passion : the regulation of race and sex in the colonial South / Paul Finkelman -- "False, feigned, and scandalous words" : sexual slander and racial ideology among whites in colonial North Carolina / Kirsten Fischer -- Interracial sects : religion, race, and gender among early North Carolina Moravians / Jon F. Sensbach -- Passion, desire, and ecstasy : the experiential religion of Southern Methodist women, 1770-1810 / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- The sexual politics of race and gender : Mary Musgrove and the Georgia trustees / Michelle Gillespie -- "In consideration of her enormous crime" : rape and infanticide in Spanish St. Augustine / Jane Landers -- Coping in a complex world : free Black women in colonial New Orleans / Kimberly S. Hanger -- "A chaos of iniquity and discord" : slave and free women in of color the Spanish ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould -- African women in French and Spanish Louisiana : origins, roles, family, work, treatment / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Subjects
- Southern States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Southern States -- Race relations.
- Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 17th century.
- Sex role -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century.
- Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
- African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
- Women -- Southern States -- Social conditions.