Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, Family Money reveals a shared preoccupation with the financial quandaries emerging from interracial sexuality in nineteenth-century America. At stake, Clymer shows, were the...
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Combining nuanced literary interpretations with significant legal cases, Family Money reveals a shared preoccupation with the financial quandaries emerging from interracial sexuality in nineteenth-century America. At stake, Clymer shows, were the very notions of family and the long-term distribution of wealth in the United States. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "This Most Illegal Family": Sex, Slavery, and the Politics of Inheritance -- 2. Blood, Truth, and Consequences: Partus Sequitur Ventrem and the Problem of Legal Title -- 3. Plantation Heiress Fiction, Slavery, and the Properties of White Marriage -- 4. Reparations for Slavery and Lydia Maria Child's Reconstruction of the Family -- 5. The Properties of Marriage in Chesnutt and Hopkins -- Coda: "Race Feeling" -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
