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Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America: ix

Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America
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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Probing a Planter’s Hidden Life
  10. 2 The Wife and the “Old Lady” Speak
  11. 3 “The stain on it”: Exploring the Disposition of “Favored” Black Women
  12. 4 “Has anyone heard from Willis?”: The Progenies’ Crossing
  13. Epilogue
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index

And also of the son of the bondswoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

GENESIS 21:13

Silk stockings an purple dresses—course I don’t believe what some folks been whisperin as to how y gets them things now. White folks always did do for niggers what they likes. An they jest cant help alikin you, Louisa.

JEAN TOOMER, CANE

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