interracial relatioships

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August 10, 2015

 

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In 1691 Virginia outlawed interracial couples and labeled their children as "that abominable mixture and spurious issue." When slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, many southern states instituted what were known as the "Black Codes." In addition to stripping freed slaves of most of their newly acquired rights, these codes continued the prohibition of marriage between whites and blacks...
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This was based on the commonly held notion that Africans, and Native Americans as well, were inferior races and interbreeding would pollute the white gene pool. When Congress tried to override at he "Black Codes" by issuing a series of laws from 1866 to 1875, he Supreme Court declared most of the legislation void and upheld the southern states' right to outlaw interracial marriage...
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