Devil's Lane Sex and Race in the Early South

Name: Devil's Lane Sex and Race in the Early South
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780195112436

ISBN-10: 0195112431

ISBN-13: 9780195112436

Edition: 1997

Authors: Catherine Clinton, Michele Gillespie

List price: $54.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $19.09 Due date: 8/13/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy used: $6.95

Buy new: $24.07

Marketplace

5 new & used from $6.75

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

When Europeans settled in the early South, they quarreled over many things--but few imbroglios were so fierce as battles over land. Landowners wrangled bitterly over boundaries with neighbors and contested areas became known as "the devil's lane." Violence and bloodshed were but some of the consequences to befall those who ventured into these disputed territories. The Devil's Lane highlights important new work on sexuality, race, and gender in the South from the seventeenth- to the nineteenth-centuries. Contributors explore legal history by examining race, crime and punishment, sex across the color line, and slander. Emerging stars and established scholars such as Peter Wood and Carol…

Book details

List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/26/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.17" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Catherine Clinton is an American historian and the author of many books, including Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil Warand Half-Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past.She is a contributor to The New Yorker.Christine Lunardini is a freelance writer who holds a Ph.D. in American History from Princeton. Her books include What Every American Should Know About Women's History: 200 Events That Shaped Our Destiny.

Michele Gillespie is associate professor of history at Wake Forest University



Contributors


Introduction Reflections on Sex, Race, and Region



Broad Strokes



""""The Facts Speak Loudly Enough: Exploring Early Southern Black History



Clio's Daughters: Southern Colonial Women and Their Historians



Wallowing In A Swamp Of Sin: Parson Weems, Sex, and Murder in Early South Carolina



The Upper South



""""Changed . . . Into The Fashion Of Man"""": The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement



Indian Foremothers: Race, Sex, Slavery, and Freedom in Early Virginia



Rape, Race, And Castration In Slave Law In The Colonial And Early South



Joan R. Gundersen Kith And Kin: Women's Networks in Colonial Virginia



Betty Wood """"For Their Satisfaction Or Redress"""": African Americans and Church Discipline in the Early South



Paul Finkelman Crimes Of Love, Misdemeanors Of Passion: The Regulation of Race and Sex in the Colonial South



The Lower South



Kirsten Fischer """"False, Feigned, And Scandalous Words"""": Sexual Slander and Racial Ideology Among Whites in Colonial North Carolina



Interracial SECTS Religion, Race, and Gender Among Early North Carolina Moravians



Cynthia Lynn Lyerly PASSION, DESIRE, AND ECSTASY: The Experiential Religion of Southern Methodist Women, 1770-1810



The Sexual Politics Of Race And Gender: Mary Musgrove and the Georgia Trustees



The Gulf South



""""In Consideration Of Her Enormous Crime"""": Rape and Infanticide in Spanish St. Augustine



Coping In A Complex World: Free Black Women in Colonial New Orleans



""""A Chaos Of Iniquity And Discord"""": Slave and Free Women of Color in the Spanish Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, and Pensacola



African Women In French And Spanish Louisiana Origins, Roles, Family, Work, Treatment


Epilogue


Suggested Readings