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The Devil's lane : sex and race in the early South

Author: Catherine Clinton; Michele Gillespie
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Catherine Clinton; Michele Gillespie
ISBN: 0195112423 9780195112429 0195112431 9780195112436
OCLC Number: 36001228
Description: xx, 274 p. ; 24 cm.
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 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.
Responsibility: edited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie.
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