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White women, Black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South by Martha Elizabeth Hodes is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is White women, Black men : illicit sex in the nineteenth-century South about?
This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America's past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation. Hodes provides details of the wedding of a white servant-woman and a slave man in 1681, on antebe
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martha Elizabeth Hodes
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780300069709
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Self Help, Psychology, Gender Studies
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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