Abstract
In this excellent study, Joshua Rothman explores how sex across the color line affected the social construction of race in early national and antebellum Virginia. Rothman complicates our understanding of racial identity, consent, coercion, family, and even the role of law in late-eighteenthand earlynineteenth-century Virginia. Rothman demonstrates how interracial sex blurred the lines between black and white and between coercion and consent. Sex
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