000732142 000__ 04092cam\a2200481\i\4500 000732142 001__ 732142 000732142 005__ 20210515110204.0 000732142 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000732142 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000732142 008__ 150624s2015\\\\maua\\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000732142 020__ $$a9780674286238 000732142 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674286238$$2doi 000732142 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn906026009 000732142 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)9780674286238 000732142 035__ $$a732142 000732142 040__ $$aIN-ChSCO$$beng$$cIN-ChSCO 000732142 0410_ $$aeng 000732142 050_4 $$aHQ1031$$b.M68 2015eb 000732142 08204 $$a306.84/6$$223 000732142 1001_ $$aMoulton, Amber D.,$$d1980-$$eauthor. 000732142 24514 $$aThe fight for interracial marriage rights in Antebellum Massachusetts$$h[electronic resource] /$$cAmber D. Moulton. 000732142 264_1 $$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2015]. 000732142 264_4 $$c©2015. 000732142 300__ $$a1 online resource (28 pages) :$$billustrations 000732142 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000732142 337__ $$acomputer$$2rdamedia 000732142 338__ $$aonline resource$$2rdacarrier 000732142 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000732142 5050_ $$aAmalgamation 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. 000732142 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000732142 520__ $$aWell 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 Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts 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. 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, the reformers recalibrated their arguments along moral lines, insisting that the prohibition on interracial unions weakened the basis of all marriage, by encouraging promiscuity, prostitution, and illegitimacy. Through trial and error, reform leaders shaped an appeal that ultimately drew in Garrisonian abolitionists, equal rights activists, antislavery evangelicals, moral reformers, and Yankee legislators, all working to legalize interracial marriage. This pre-Civil War effort to overturn Massachusetts' antimiscegenation law was not a political aberration but a crucial chapter in the deep history of the African American struggle for equal rights, on a continuum with the civil rights movement over a century later. --$$cprovided by publisher. 000732142 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000732142 650_0 $$aInterracial marriage$$xLaw and legislation$$zMassachusetts$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000732142 650_0 $$aInterracial marriage$$xLaw and legislation$$zMassachusetts$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000732142 650_0 $$aInterracial marriage$$zMassachusetts$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000732142 650_0 $$aInterracial marriage$$zMassachusetts$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000732142 651_0 $$aMassachusetts$$xHistory$$y1775-1865. 000732142 651_0 $$aMassachusetts$$xRace relations$$xHistory$$y18th century. 000732142 651_0 $$aMassachusetts$$xRace relations$$xHistory$$y19th century. 000732142 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aMoulton, Amber D., 1980-$$tFight for interracial marriage rights in Antebellum Massachusetts.$$dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015$$z9780674967625$$w(DLC) 2014035855$$w(OCoLC)891001590 000732142 85280 $$bebk$$hHarvard University Press 000732142 85640 $$3Harvard University Press$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674286238$$zOnline Access 000732142 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:732142$$pGLOBAL_SET 000732142 980__ $$aEBOOK 000732142 980__ $$aBIB 000732142 982__ $$aEbook 000732142 983__ $$aOnline