Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South / Diane Miller Sommerville.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sommerville, Diane Miller
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Subjects:	Rape > Southern States > History > 19th century. Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Online Access:	Table of contents Publisher description

Table of Contents:

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

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