| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Kirsten Fischer. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 265. Cloth $45.00, paper $17.95.

Sexual relationships, liaisons, and transgressions, together with sexual coercion and violence, were profoundly bound up with the construction and reinforcement of racial categories in the eighteenth-century South. Such connections form the substance of Kirsten Fischer's study, which takes the lives of ordinary folk as its evidence. Unpublished lower court records from northeastern North Carolina, supplemented by travel narratives, are the principal sources, and Fischer uses them well: she quotes amply though judiciously, reads with care and caution, and notes where the historical record remains unyielding. By the end of the eighteenth century, Fischer argues, white colonists in North Carolina had come to understand "race" as a physical, natural, inherent, and largely immutable attribute. This idea then justified the subordination and enslavement of others. . . .

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