Sharon Block: 2 books

Rape and Sexual Power in Early America

by Sharon Block
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

In a comprehensive examination of rape and its prosecution in British America between 1700 and 1820, Sharon Block exposes the dynamics of sexual power on which colonial and early republican Anglo-American society was based. Block analyzes the legal, social, and cultural implications of more...

Colonial Complexions

Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

by Sharon Block
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018

In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals...