Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South

Name: Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South
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ISBN: 9780807855607

ISBN-10: 080785560X

ISBN-13: 9780807855607

Edition: 2004

Authors: Diane Miller Sommerville

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Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century. Sommerville demonstrates that despite draconian statutes, accused black rapists frequently avoided execution or castration, largely due to intervention by members of the white community. This leniency belies claims that antebellum white southerners were overcome with anxiety about black rape. In fact, Sommerville argues, there was great fluidity across racial and sexual lines as well as a greater tolerance among whites…

Book details

List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 11/29/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English




Not so heinous as at first might be supposed : slave rape, gender, and class in old South communities



A manifest distinction between a woman and a female child : rape law, children, and the antebellum South



He shall suffer death : black-on-white rape law in the early South



The very helplessness of the accused appeals to our sympathy : rape, race, and southern appellate law



Against all odds? : free blacks on trial for rape in the antebellum South



Rarely known to violate a white woman : slave rape in Civil War-era Virginia



Our judiciary system is a farce : remapping the legal landscape of rape in the post-emancipation South



Foul daughter of reconstruction? : black rape in the reconstruction South



The old thread-bare lie : the rape myth and alternatives to lynching



Rape, race, and rhetoric : the rape myth in historiographical perspective