Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina
Title | Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Fischer, Kirsten |
Number of Pages | 265 |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
City | Ithaca, NY |
Abstract | In this book, Kirsten Fischer reveals how early notions of racial difference were shaped by illicit sexual relationships and the sanctions imposed on those who conducted them. Fischer shows how the personal and yet often very public sexual lives of Native American, African American, and European American women and men contributed to the new racial order in this developing slave society. Liaisons between European men and native women, among white and black servants, and between servants and masters were debated, denied, and recorded in the courtrooms of colonial North Carolina. Indentured servants, slaves, Cherokee and Catawba women, and other members of less privileged groups sometimes resisted colonial norms, making sexual choices that irritated neighbors, juries, and magistrates and resulted in legal penalties and other acts of retribution. The sexual practices of ordinary people vividly bring to light the little-known but significant ways in which notions of racial difference were alternately contested and affirmed before the American Revolution. |
URL | https://www.booktopia.com.au/suspect-relations-kirsten-fischer/book/9780801486791.html |
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