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The Devil's lane : sex and race in the early South
- Title
- The Devil's lane : sex and race in the early South / edited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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- Description
- xx, 274 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Southern States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
- African American women > Southern States > Social conditions
- Women > Southern States > Social conditions
- Sex role > Southern States > History > 17th century
- Women slaves > Southern States > Social conditions
- Southern States > Race relations
- Sex role > Southern States > History > 18th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274).
- Contents
- "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 a 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 / Michele 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 of color in the Spanish ports of New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola / Virginia Meacham Gould -- African women in French and Spanish Louisiana / Gwendolyn Midlo Hall.
- Call Number
- Sc E 97-627
- ISBN
- 0195112423
- 0195112431 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96039835
- OCLC
- 36001228
- Title
- The Devil's lane : sex and race in the early South / edited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-274).
- Added Author
- Clinton, Catherine, 1952-Gillespie, Michele.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 97-627