Rape and race in the nineteenth-century South

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.