th Negroes to produce desirable looking offspring
for purposes of concubinage. Such a case happened in Virginia near the
end of the eighteenth century. After long litigation she and her
children were declared free. Under these conditions sexual relations
among Negroes became loose. The attachment of husband to wife was not
strong and ties of blood were often ignored in sexual relations. There
appears, on the other hand, much evidence that a high sense of
morality obtained among the Negroes. Women of color would not yield to
the lust of their masters, and the forced separation by sale of the
wife from the husband caused heartaches and sometimes suicide.

Racial associations of the slaves with their masters' children, the
author contends, was generally harmful in that white children learned
from the most degraded class of the population. Yet the fact that the
whites often admitted the blacks to great intimacy indicates that
there must have been many whites who did not believe it. Slaves thus
associated soon learned the ways of their master's family, but white
children remaining and even sleeping promiscuously among slaves early
formed the habit of fornication. The extent to which this custom
prevailed is well established by numerous instances of the concubinage
of white men with women of color, the offspring of which served for
the same purpose as an article of commerce for similar use throughout
the South. In this respect the author has not brought out anything
new.

Continuing the discussion further he says (II, 305): "Southerners
maintained heatedly that at all events the virtue of the southern
woman was unspotted." "Doubtless," says he, "their contention was
largely warranted but it could not be maintained absolutely." To prove
the assertion he quotes Neilson, who during the six years he spent in
the United States prior to 1830 found in Virginia a case of a Negro
with whom a planter's daughter had not only fallen in love but had
actually seduced him. In North Carolina a white woman drank some of
her Negro's blood that she might swear that she had Negro blood in her
and marry him. They reared a family. The author quotes also from
Reverend Mr. Rankin, who "could refer you to several instances of
slaves actually seducing the daughters of their masters! Such
seductions sometimes happened even in the most respectable
slaveholding families." The author agrees with Pickett, however, that
most white women in the South were