Colonial America
Gender & Sexuality
Dr. Kane
mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM
Office Hrs: M 10:20 - 11:20 & F 1:30 - 3:30 Social Science 60S
Monday, September 25
your objects
- your two objects
- one sentence - your argument or connection to class so far
today's class
- sexuality & colonies
- T Hall
- Nathaniel Bacon & rebellion
- Nathaniel Bacon, race & gender
sexuality in early America
- early colonial encounters vs. later social order
- identity vs. acts
- privacy vs. social order
- sodomy prosecution vs. bastardy/adultery prosecution
- sexual deviance as metaphor
T Hall
- why did T Hall's neighbors care?
- trans vs intersex vs male vs female
- not possible to cross gender boundaries
- master's regulation of the household
Bacon's Rebellion - leadup
- headright system - free men & freed indentured servants
- closure of headright system
- Susquehannock & Doeg military power
- news of Indian war in New England (King Phillip's War)
Bacon's Rebellion - justification
- expansion into Indian territory justified (1622 & just war)
- fear of Indian war excuse for colonial elites
- "Declaration of the People of Virginia"
- appeal to protection from King of England
Bacon's Rebellion - gender
- indentured & enslaved men denied privileges of freedom
- funded by wealthy elites shut out of Berkeley's neoptism
- property = voting, marriage, citizenship
- property = adult masculinity
- endangerment of rights of free British men
Bacon's Rebellion - results
- tighter imperial control
- higher property requirement to vote
- aggressive Indian policy
- social separation of blacks & whites
Virginia Slave Codes
- free blacks may not: employ whites, own guns, own property
- different legal punishments for indentured whites & enslaved blacks
- longer indentures, more corporal punishment for blacks
- "Christian whites" vs. "Negroes, Moors & Mahometans"