Race And Rape In The 19th Century Diane Sommerville Summary

In This book race and rape in the nineteenth century Diane Summerville developed a theme that Southern women's history currently, that the slave South was about more than just race.gender and class played a big part in shaping the South in the nineteenth century. Sommerville said that the elite men in the south was over the charges on black men's sexual assaults on white women showed fears of racial aggression than with conserving property in slaves and maintaining the line between poor white and therefore morally suspect women and their elite husbands.Sommerville demonstrates that despite draconian statutes, accused black rapists frequently avoided execution or castration, largely due to intervention by members of the white community.