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White Women, Black Men : Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South
White Women Black Men Illicit Sex in the NineteenthCentury South Author:Martha Hodes This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America`s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows... more » how and why these responses changed with emancipation.« less