Rape & Race in the Nineteenth-Century South

Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1(18) 1 Not So Heinous as at First Might Be Supposed: Slave Rape, Gender, and Class in Old South Communities 19(23) 2 A Manifest Distinction between a Woman and a Female Child: Rape Law, Children, and the Antebellum South 42(30) 3 He Shall Suffer Death: Black-on-White Rape Law in the Early South 72(14) 4 The Very Helplessness of the Accused Appeals to Our Sympathy: Rape, Race, and Southern Appellate Law 86(16) 5 Against All Odds?: Free Blacks on Trial for Rape in the Antebellum South 102(18) 6 Rarely Known to Violate a White Woman: Slave Rape in Civil War-Era Virginia 120(27) 7 Our Judiciary System Is a Farce: Remapping the Legal Landscape of Rape in the Post-Emancipation South 147(29) 8 Foul Daughter of Reconstruction?: Black Rape in the Reconstruction South 176(24) 9 The Old Thread-Bare Lie: The Rape Myth and Alternatives to Lynching 200(19) Epilogue 219(4) Appendix. Rape, Race, and Rhetoric: The Rape Myth in Historiographical Perspective 223(38) Notes 261(88) Bibliography 349(46) Index 395