Sex without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Studying Rape in American History 1 Merril D. Smith 1 “None of the Women Were Abused”: Indigenous Contexts for the Treatment of Women Captives in the Northeast 10 Alice Nash 2 “Playing the Rogue”: Rape and Issues of Consent in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts 27 Else L. Hambleton 3 Sexual Consent and Sexual Coercion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia 46 Terri L. Snyder 4 Coerced Sex and Gendered Violence in New Netherland 61 James Homer Williams 5 Rape, Law, Courts, and Custom in Pennsylvania, 1682–1800 81 Jack Marietta and G. S. Rowe 6 “The Law Should Be Her Protector”: The Criminal Prosecution of Rape in Upper Canada, 1791–1850 103 Patrick J. Connor 7 “I Was Very Much Wounded”: Rape Law, Children, and the Antebellum South 136 Diane Miller Sommerville 8 “A Most Detestable Crime”: Character, Consent, and Corroboration in Vermont’s Rape Law, 1850–1920 178 Hal Goldman vii 9 “In the Marriage Bed Woman’s Sex Has Been Enslaved and Abused”: Defining and Exposing Marital Rape in Late-Nineteenth-Century America 204 Jesse F. Battan 10 Race, Honor, Citizenship: The Massie Rape/Murder Case 230 Bonni Cermak 11 “Another Negro-Did-It Crime”: Black-on-White Rape and Protest in Virginia, 1945–1960 247 Lisa Lindquist Dorr 12 Sexual Coercion and Limited Choices: Their Link to Teen Pregnancy and Welfare 265 Robert Cherry 13 Rape on Campus: Numbers Tell Less Than Half the Story 283 Julie Campbell-Ruggaard and JamiVan Ryswyk Contributors 301 Index 305 viii CONTENTS ...