• • Front Matter
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• • Table of Contents
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• • Acknowledgments
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• • Introduction
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• • “Love Seems with Them More to be an Eager Desire”:: Racialized Stereotypes in the Slaveholding South
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• • Asking Master Mack to Court:: Competing Spheres of Influence
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• • Getting Out to Play and Courting All They Pleased:: The Social and Temporal Geographies of Enslaved Courtship
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• • Taking a Whipping for Lily:: Courtship as a Narrative of Resistance
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• • A Red Satin Ribbon Tied around My Finger:: The Meaning of the Wedding Ceremony
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• • Conclusion
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• • Notes
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• • Bibliography
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• • Index
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