(Sorry--the link to the publisher's description of the Rothman book
that I just sent was incomplete; it should be
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2002007568.html  ).


On Sep 5, 2006, at 11:33 PM, Jurretta Heckscher wrote:

> The best place to start is Joshua D. Rothman, Notorious in the
> Neighborhood: Sex and Families across the Color Line in Virginia,
> 1787-1861 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003;
> Library of Congress call number  HQ1031 .R695 2003).  The publisher's
> description is here:
> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/unc041/2002007568.htm  --and an
> H-Net review is here:   http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0d1n8-aa
>
> --Jurretta Heckscher
>
>
> On Sep 5, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Sally Phillips wrote:
>
>> Would it be fair to say that residents of Cumberland County, Virginia,
>> and
>> other counties well west of the fall line, in the 50 or so years
>> following
>> the Revolution, would be more independent-minded, more free-spirited,
>> less
>> bound to the 100-year-old traditions of the more easterly counties?  I
>> am
>> trying not to use the word "liberal" as it is used today, because I
>> don't
>> know what "liberal" meant in 1800.  But that is what I'm getting at.
>> I am
>> researching an inter-racial family where the father/owner and the
>> mother/slave and the offspring lived publicly as a family.  As well as
>> I
>> can tell from the records, they seem to have been at least tolerated.
>> They appear to have functioned well in the community.  Although
>> Cumberland
>> County was far from the frontier in 1800-1825, had it been settled by
>> frontier-seekers who simply didn't care that much about traditions?
>> Is
>> there a book that deals with this subject?
>>

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