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  • Family Values in the Old South

    Family Values in the Old South University Press of Florida 2010-01-24 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-3418-8 ISBN 10: 0-8130-3418-3 Edited by Craig Thompson Friend, Associate Professor of History North Carolina State University Anya Jabour, Professor of History University of Montana This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South…

  • Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture

    The editors of this volume have assembled some of the most distinguished American historians, including three Pulitzer Prize winners, and other experts on Jefferson, his times, race, and slavery. Their essays reflect the deeper questions the relationship between Hemings and Jefferson has raised about American history and national culture.

  • Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

    The debate over the affair between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings rarely rises above the question of “Did they or didn’t they?” But lost in the argument over the existence of such a relationship are equally urgent questions about a history that is more complex, both sexually and culturally, than most of us realize.

  • An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’

    An Inter-Racial Love Story in Fact and Fiction: William and Mary King Allen’s Marriage and Louisa May Alcott’s Tale, ‘M.L.’ History Workshop Journal 2002 Volume 53, Number 1 pages 17-42 DOI: 10.1093/hwj/53.1.17 Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton William G. Allen, the child of a free mulatto mother…

  • The American Prejudice Against Color: An Authentic Narrative, Showing How Easily The Nation Got Into An Uproar

    A compilation of the explosive reactions to interracial love and marriage in antebellum America.

  • Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery

    Louisa May Alcott On Race, Sex, And Slavery Northeastern University Press University Press of New England 1997 160 pages EAN: 978-1-55553-307-6 Louisa May Alcott Edited by Sarah Elbert, Professor Emerita of History The State University of New York, Binghamton The passionate supporter of abolition and women’s rights speaks out on the most controversial issues of…

  • The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy

    The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy Carolina Academic Press January 2010 ISBN: 978-0-89089-085-1 Hardback Robert F. Turner, Associate Director at the Center for National Security Law University of Virginia School of Law In 2000, the newly formed Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society asked a group of more than a dozen senior scholars from across the country to carefully examine…

  • The Racial Contract

    “The Racial Contract” puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged “contract” has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence “whites” and…

  • Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery

    Creole Crossings: Domestic Fiction and the Reform of Colonial Slavery Cornell University Press 2005 254 pages, 6 x 9 ISBN: 978-0-8014-4384-8  Carolyn Vellenga Berman Department of Humanities The New School, New York The character of the Creole woman—the descendant of settlers or slaves brought up on the colonial frontier—is a familiar one in nineteenth-century French,…

  • Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina

    Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina Cornell University Press 2001 288 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 2 maps, 13 halftones, 1 line drawing Paper ISBN: 978-0-8014-8679-1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8014-3822-6 Kirsten Fischer, Associate Professor of History University of Minnesota Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as…