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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 1 “Love Seems with Them More to be an Eager Desire”: Racialized Stereotypes in the Slaveholding South 22 2 Asking Master Mack to Court: Competing Spheres of Influence 32 3 Getting Out to Play and Courting All They Pleased: The Social and Temporal Geographies of Enslaved Courtship 52 4 Taking a Whipping for Lily: Courtship as a Narrative of Resistance 69 5 A Red Satin Ribbon Tied around My Finger: The Meaning of the Wedding Ceremony 88 Conclusion 101 Notes 105 Bibliography 123 Index 133 This page intentionally left blank ...

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