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Not so heinous as at first might be supposed: slave rape, gender, and class in old South communities
A manifest distinction between a woman and a female child: rape law, children, and the antebellum South
He shall suffer death: Black-on-white rape law in the early South
The very helplessness of the accused appeals to our sympathy: rape, race, and Southern appellate law
Against all odds?: free Blacks on trial for rape in the antebellum South
Rarely known to violate a white woman: slave rape in Civil War-era Virginia
Our judiciary system is a farce: remapping the legal landscape of rape in the post-emancipation South
Foul daughter of Reconstruction?: Black rape in the Reconstruction South
The old thread-bare lie: the rape myth and alternatives to lynching
Appendix. Rape, race, and rhetoric: the rape myth in historiographical perspective.
A manifest distinction between a woman and a female child: rape law, children, and the antebellum South
He shall suffer death: Black-on-white rape law in the early South
The very helplessness of the accused appeals to our sympathy: rape, race, and Southern appellate law
Against all odds?: free Blacks on trial for rape in the antebellum South
Rarely known to violate a white woman: slave rape in Civil War-era Virginia
Our judiciary system is a farce: remapping the legal landscape of rape in the post-emancipation South
Foul daughter of Reconstruction?: Black rape in the Reconstruction South
The old thread-bare lie: the rape myth and alternatives to lynching
Appendix. Rape, race, and rhetoric: the rape myth in historiographical perspective.