White Women, Black Men Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South |
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Author:
| Hodes, Martha |
ISBN: | 978-0-300-06970-9 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1997 |
Publisher: | Yale University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $48.00 |
Book Description:
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This is a history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America's past: liaisons between southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes explores the complex ways in which white southerners tolerated these relationships, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation.
This is a history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America's past: liaisons between southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes explores the complex ways in which white southerners tolerated these relationships, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation.