The fight for interracial marriage rights in Antebellum Massachusetts /

Well known as an abolitionist stronghold before the Civil War, Massachusetts had taken steps to eliminate slavery as early as the 1780s. Nevertheless, a powerful racial caste system still held sway, reinforced by a law prohibiting "amalgamation"--Marriage between whites and blacks. The Fig...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Moulton, Amber D., 1980- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Sujets:
1700-1899
Interracial marriage > Massachusetts > History > 18th century.
Interracial marriage > Massachusetts > History > 19th century.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation > Massachusetts > History > 18th century.
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation > Massachusetts > History > 19th century.
Mariage interracial > Massachusetts > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Mariage interracial > Massachusetts > Histoire > 19e siècle.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage > Law and legislation
Race relations
Massachusetts > Race relations > History > 18th century.
Massachusetts > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Massachusetts > History > 1775-1865.
Massachusetts > Relations raciales > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Massachusetts > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Massachusetts
History
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Table des matières:
  • Amalgamation and the Massachusetts ban on interracial marriage
  • Interracial marriage as an equal rights measure
  • Moral reform and the protection of Northern motherhood
  • Anti-Southern politics and interracial marriage rights
  • Advancing interracialism.

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