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Family Money - Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
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Family Money - Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who
tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners; the
household traumas of mixed-race slaves; post-Emancipation calls for
reparations; and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation
marriage laws. Authors ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank
Webb, and Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charles Chesnutt and Lydia Maria
Child recognized that intimate interracial relationships took
myriad forms, often simultaneously sexual, marital, coercive,
familial, pleasurable, and painful. Their fiction confirms that the
consequences of these relationships for nineteenth-century
Americans meant thinking about more than the legal structure of
racial identity. Who could count as family (and when); who could
own property (and when); and how racial difference was imagined
(and why) were emphatically bound together. Demonstrating that
notions of race were entwined with economics well beyond the direct
issue of slavery, Family Money reveals interracial sexuality to be
a volatile mixture of emotion, economics, and law that had
dramatic, long-term financial consequences.
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