Married interracial sex

Description:When did interracial marriage become legal in the United States? Political Cartoon of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings In the United States, anti-miscegenation laws existed from the colonial era through the 20th century, and they are bookended by two Virginia pieces of legislation: If she did not have fifteen pounds sterling, she was essentially indentured for five years until the debt had been paid. Legislating interracial relationships suggested that they were illegitimate. Furthermore, legislating, for example, interracial fornication as a crime different from fornication, suggested that the interracial element made any crime more deviant. In North Carolina, where historian Kirsten Fischer did her study of sexual slander cases, the most degrading insults against white women contained graphic descriptions of sex with black men or animals.

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