The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts / / Amber D. Moulton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015
• VerfasserIn: Moulton, Amber D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 p.) :; 11 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674286238; 9783110439687; 9783110438635; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674286238
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Amber D. Moulton.

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.