Article Title

Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861

Authors

Mary R. Block

ISBN

807854409

Price

$19.95

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Abstract

Mixed marriage

Work analyzes both legality and reality of interracial relationships

In this important work, historian Joshua Rothman asserts that we need to rethink conventional wisdom about sex across the color line in the antebellum South. Using a broad array of evidence from p....

Recommended Citation

Block, Mary R. (2003) "Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 5 : Iss. 4 .
Available at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol5/iss4/19