White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South by Martha Hodes

White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South

Martha Hodes

352 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 Wa...

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