Sexual terror in the reconstruction South

Battle Scars: Gender and Sexuality in the American Civil War

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 140-167

  Cardyn, Lisa ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (15)

1. Walter Laqueur, A History of Terrorism (1977; New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2001), vii.
2. See Jacky Hardy, "Everything Old Is New Again: The Use of GenderBased Terrorism against Women, " Minerva 19 (2000): 9.
3. Frederick J. Hacker, Crusaders, Criminals, Crazies: Terror and Terrorism in Our Time (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1976), xi.
4. Although there is no comprehensive history of slave sexual exploitation as of this writing, most scholars agree that it was widely endured by women and, to a lesser extent, men held in bondage. See, e.g., Catherine Clinton, "Caught in the Web of the Big House: Women and Slavery, " in The Web of Southern Social Relations: Women, Family, and Education, edited by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., R. Frank Saunders, Jr., and Jon L. Wakelyn (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1985), 20, 23, 24, 25;
5. Catherine Clinton, "'Southern Dishonor': Flesh, Blood, Race, and Bondage, " in In Joy and In Sorrow: Women, Family, and Marriage in the Victorian South, 1830-1900, edited by Carol Bleser (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 57-58, 65-66, 67;
6. Karen A. Getman, "Sexual Control in the Slaveholding South: The Implementation and Maintenance of a Racial Caste System, " Harvard Women's Law Journal 7 (1994): 115, 142-143 (1994);
7. Thelma Jennings, "'Us Colored Women Had to Go Through a Plenty': Sexual Exploitation of African American Slave Women, " Journal of Women's History 1 (1990): 45-46, 60-66;
8. Marie Jenkins Schwartz, Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), 14, 44-46, 154, 161-162, 172-173, 174, 178, 197, 206-207;
9. Gloria Shepherd, "The Rape of Black Women in Slavery" (D.A. diss., State University of New York at Albany, 1988).
10. There are likewise few sustained historical discussions of Civil War sexual violence have yet been published; however, useful information on the topic may be found in a number of recent works. See, e.g., Stephen V. Ash, When the Yankees Came: Confl ict and Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995), 19-20, 158-159, 197-198, 200-201;
11. Michael Fellman, Inside War: The Guerrilla Confl ict in Missouri during the American Civil War (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 207-213;
12. Thomas P. Lowry, The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War (Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 1994), 31-32, 36, 39, 123-131, 136;
13. Reid Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 102-112;
14. Leslie A. Schwalm, A Hard Fight for We: Women's Transition from Slavery to Freedom in South Carolina (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997), 102-103, 119-122, 247, 314-315 n. 23.
15. George C. Rable, But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction (Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1984), 95.