The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts【電子書籍】[ Amber D. Moulton ]

＜p＞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”ーmarriage between whites and blacks. ＜em＞The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts＜/em＞ chronicles a grassroots movement to overturn the state’s ban on interracial unions. Assembling information from court and church records, family histories, and popular literature, Amber D. Moulton recreates an unlikely collaboration of reformers who sought to rectify what, in the eyes of the state’s antislavery constituency, appeared to be an indefensible injustice.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Initially, activists argued that the ban provided a legal foundation for white supremacy in Massachusetts. But laws that enforced racial hierarchy remained popular even in Northern states, and the movement gained little traction. To attract broader support, th．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る