Thanks, Brent. Will take a look.
-- Stephan
on 1/10/03 12:01 PM, Brent Tarter at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I have been reading Peter Wallenstein's new book, TELL THE COURT I LOVE MY
> WIFE; RACE, MARRIAGE, AND LAW: AN AMERICAN HISTORY (New York: Palgrave
> Macmillan, 2002), which treats mixed-race marriage in American law and
> history and contains good references that might be useful for the early
> period; and even better stuff for the later periods.
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> Brent Tarter
> The Library of Virginia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephan A. Schwartz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 10 January, 2003 11:07 AM
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> Subject: Mixed race children
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> I am trying to find early references to children of mixed race appearing in
> the population of Virginia. That is, when did people begin to talk about
> this as an issue. I know that even in the 1600s enslaved African females
> were coming ashore pregnant from having been raped by ship's crew but, other
> than the reference, no discussion of what this meant. Testosterone being
> what it is, and availability and the inability to say no being what it must
> have been, mixed race children had to have been a social factor very early.
> But I haven't found the references. Many thanks to any list member who has
> guidance to hand.
>
> -- Stephan
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