Re: QUERY: Anti-Miscegenation Laws in New England?

Josef J. Barton (texbart@merle.acns.nwu.edu)
Tue, 2 Apr 1996 08:33:59 -0600

[Patrick Rael <prael@POLAR.BOWDOIN.EDU> writes:]

> Did any of the states in New England have anti-miscegenation
> laws?

Lorenzo Greene (_The Negro in Colonia New England_) says that
only Massachusetts in the colonial period passed such laws (208).
According to Leon Litwack (_North of Slavery_), Mass. reinforced
this law after the Revolution (35), and Rhode Island also adopted
such laws. They were probably rather unenforcable, however.

Patrick Rael
Bowdoin College