Read Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape Online
Authors: Susan Brownmiller
(115) As early as i768: Oliver Morton Dickerson, comp., Boston Under
Military Rule,
2 768-1769, as revealed
in
A
Journal
of the
Times,
Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1936. Background material I use is contained in Dickerson's introduction, pp. vii-xii. Specific quotations from the
fournal
appear on pp. 21, 29, 34, 93,
lOO,
114. See also pp. 71, 79, 90, 99, 108, 118.
( 117) cavalier view from Rawdon: Henry Steele Commager and Richard
B. Morris, eds., The
Spirit
of
'Seventy-Six,
Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill, 1958, p. 424.
( 117) "The enemy make great devastation": Col. George Measam to Gen.
Anthony Wayne, Albany, Jan. 11, 1777, Anthony Wayne Correspon dence, New York Public Library.
( 117) British and Hessian campaigns notorious: Commager and Morris, p. 524.
( 117) "Since I wrote to you this morning": New
f
ersey
Historical Society
Archives, Series 2, Vol. 1, Trenton: 1901, pp. 245-246.
( 118) "The Damages Done by these Plunderings": Varnum Lansing Col lins, ed., A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the
British
and Hessians at Princeton
in
2 776-77, Princeton: The University Library, 1906,
PP· 14-15.
( 119) Gen. Washington's special order: Commager and Morris, p. 525.
( 119) Continental Congress, committee report: Commager and Morris, PP· 525-527.
( 120) Congress ordered the printing: Elizabeth Evans, Weathering the
Storm:
Women
in
the American
Revolution,
New York: Scribner's, 1975, p. 26.
( 120) six affidavits in a two-day period: Papers of the Continental Con gress, Item 53: Papers and Affidavits Relating to the Plundering, Burnings and Ravages Committed by the British, 1775-84, folios 29-40. These handwritten affidavits are now in the Center for the Documentary Study of the American Revolution, The National Archives, Washington, D.C. I wish to thank George C. Chalou, Archivist, for providing me with photocopies of the originals.
SOURCE NOTES
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Chmelnitzky pogroms: Ronald Sanders,
The Downtown Jews,
New York: Harper
&
Row, 1969, p. 17.
replications in the Ukraine: Antle Manners, Poor Cousins, New
ork: Coward.,McCan.n., 972!/P· 37-39.
. . . amateurish quality :
Ib1
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wave that began in 1919: Documentation and eyewitness accounts of this pogrom in Massacres
and
Other Atrocities Committed Against
the Jews
in Southern Russia, New York: American Jewish Congress, amphlet, 1920.
"The tire and oppressed Jews": Ibid.
Periodic rape sorely taxed the rabbinical concept: Louis M. Epstein, Sex Laws and Customs in Judaism, New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1948, pp. 191-192, 215.
". . . 'a beautiful Jewess' ": Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew (1946) , trans. from the French by George J. Becker, New York: Schocken, 1965, pp. 48-49.
Mormon persecutions: Herman C. Smith, "Mormon Torubles in Missouri,"
Missouri
Historical Review, Vol. IV, No. 4 (July 1910), pp. 238-251.
"The mob was now let loose": Elder B. H. Roberts,
The Missouri
Persecutions, Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon
&
Sons, 1900. ". . . boasted of raping virtuous wives":
Ibid.
MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACKS: THE KKK
Memphis Riot: Jack D.
L.
Holmes, "The Underlying Causes of the Memphis Race Riot of 1866," Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Sept. 1958), pp. 195-22i.
several black women spoke of rape: Testimony of Frances Thomp son, Lucy Smith, Lucy Tibbs and Cynthia Townsend before the Congressional Investigating Committee appears in Gerda Lerner, ed.,
Black
Women
in White
America: A Documentary History, New York: Pantheon, 1972, pp. 174-177.
origins of the Ku Klux Klan: Thomas B. Alexander, "Kukluxism in Tennessee, 1865-1869,'' Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Sept. 1949), pp. 195-219. See also Stanley F. Horn, In
visible
Empire, Cos Cob: Edwards, 1969.
a joint Congressional committee: Testimony of Harriet Simril and Ellen Parton in Lerner, pp. 183-186. Testimony of Hannah Tutson in Herbert Aptheker, A Documentary
History
of
the
Negro People in
the United
States (1951) , New York: Citadel, 1968, Vol. 2, pp. 579-585.
". . . no records of the rape . . . of white women": Lerner, p. 80. Under the guise of punishing immorality: See Irving Leibowitz, My
Indiana, New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964, for his account of the whipping of white women, and of the Stephenson trial.
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MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST WHITES: THE CONGO
Pro-Lumumba papers in England:
New
Statesman, July
23, 1960,
pp.
107-108.
"what the black savages": National Review, Aug.
27, 1960,
p.
101.
""\Vherever its operations have ranged": E. D. Morel, The Future of the Congo, London: Smith, Elder
&
Co.,
1909,
pp.
34-35.
A history of the Force Publique may also be found in Colin Legum, Congo Disaster, London: Penguin,
1961.
mutiny at Thysville, etc.: Catherine Hoskyns, The Congo Since Independence. London: Oxford University Press,
1965,
p.
89.
"The attacks on European women": Helen Kitchen, ed., Footnotes to the Congo
Story: An
"Africa Report" Anthology, New York: Walker
&
Co.,
1967,
pp.
21-23.
Belgian white paper: Edwin S. Munger, "Conflict in the Congo, Part III: An Inquiry into Rape Charges" (Sept.
1960),
African Field Reports, American Universities Field Staff,
1961.
Philippa Schuyler's reporting: Philippa Schuyler, Who Killed the Congo?, New York: Devin-Adair,
1962,
pp.
185-190.
"It
would be interesting to know":
New
Statesman, July
23, 1960,
p.
108.
5. Two
STUDIES IN AMERICAN HISTORY INDIANS
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"I have been in the midst": The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration
of
Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (
1682),
Boston: Houghton Miffiin,
1930,
p.
71.
( 141)
Isabella McCoy: Frederick Drimmer, ed., Scalps and Tomahawks: Narratives of Indian Captivity, New York: Coward-McCann,
1961,
r.·
13.
( 141)
'I don't remember": Ibid.
( 141)
"Anyone reading": Drimmer, p.
12.
( 141)
Iroquois matrilineal: Peter Farb, Man's Rise to Civilization as Shown
by
the Indians
of
North America from Primeval
Times
to the Coming of the Industrial State, New York: Avon/ Discus,
1971,
pp.
130-131.
( 142)
experience of Mary Jemison: James Seaver, A Narrative of the Life of Mary Jemison ( 8
24) ,
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society,
1932.
( 142)
Female captives were closely scrutinized: William B. Rice, "The Captivity of Olive Oatman," California Historical Society Quarterly,
June
1941,
p.
97.
( 142)
"Some women who had been delivered up": Drimmer, p.
14.
sr
( 142)
"From all history and tradition": Mix commentary in Seaver, p.
421. ( 143)
"I told her had better": Abbie Gardner-Sharp, History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner, Des
Moines: Iowa Printing Co.,
1902,
p.
217.
( 144)
narrative of Fanny Kelly: Drimmer, pp.
330-369.
(144)
different version: Stanley Vestal, Sitting
Bull,
Champion of the Sioux, Boston: Houghton Miffiin,
1932,
pp.
65-69.
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