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From: "Mills" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Race and Blind Spots
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 17:50:40 -0600
References: <20031110233214.2174.qmail@web13404.mail.yahoo.com>

> I know that blacks and whites did intermarry, at
> least in certain places and times (I wouldn't
> expect to find such a situation in the antebellum
> South).

Ah, the misconceptions Americans have grown up with! Interracial marriages
occurred in just about all the antebellum Southern states. Even when Alabama
finally passed a law against black-white marriage in 1853, it did not
declare such marriages null and void. It just penalized the officials who
performed the ceremonies.

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG
Author, *Evidence! Citation & Analysis for the Family Historian*
Editor/Author, *Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers,
Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians*

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