Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in the Neighborhood, Joshua Rothman examines the f |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Stories Told about Monticello | 12 |
1Thomas Jefferson Sally Hemings James Callender and Sex across the Color Line under Slavery | 14 |
The Community of Mary Hemings | 53 |
An Interracial Family in Early National Antebellum Virginia | 57 |
The Funeral of David Isaacs | 88 |
Sex and Race on the Streets of Richmond | 92 |
The Context for Lawmaking | 130 |
Interracial Adultery and Divorce | 169 |
The Mysteries of William Carlton | 199 |
Mixed Bloods in Early National and Antebellum Law and Society | 204 |
Toward a New Racial Order | 235 |
Epilogue | 239 |
Notes | 245 |
Bibliography | 307 |
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