edited by Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie.
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1997.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (xx, 274 pages)
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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"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.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Land contested over by settlers in the early South was named "the devil's lane" with violence often befalling those who ventured there. These essays on sexuality, race and gender in the South from the 17th to 19th century, explore legal history through race, crime, punishment and slander.
ACQUISITION INFORMATION NOTE
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MIL
Stock Number
45365
OTHER EDITION IN ANOTHER MEDIUM
Title
Devil's lane.
International Standard Book Number
0195112431
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
African American women-- Southern States-- Social conditions.
Sex role-- Southern States-- History-- 17th century.
Sex role-- Southern States-- History-- 18th century.
Women slaves-- Southern States-- Social conditions.
Women-- Southern States-- Social conditions.
African American women-- Social conditions.
HISTORY-- State & Local.
History.
Race relations.
Sex role.
Women slaves-- Social conditions.
Women-- Social conditions.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Southern States, History, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.