The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts

✍ Scribed by Amber D. Moulton

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Though Massachusetts banned slavery in 1780, prior to the Civil War a law prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks reinforced the state’s racial caste system. Amber Moulton recreates an unlikely collaboration of reformers who sought to rectify what they saw as an indefensible injustice, leading to the legalization of interracial marriage.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1. Amalgamation and the Massachusetts Ban on Interracial Marriage
2. Interracial Marriage as an Equal Rights Measure
3. Moral Reform and the Protection of Northern Motherhood
4. Anti-Southern Politics and Interracial Marriage Rights
5. Advancing Interracialism
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index