One Nation, One Blood: Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870

by Karen Woods Weierman

The proscription against interracial marriage was for many years a flashpoint in American culture. In One Nation, One Blood, Karen Woods Weierman explores this taboo by investigating the traditional link between marriage and property. Her research reveals that the opposition to intermarriage originated in large measure in the nineteenth-century desire for Indian land and African labor. Yet despite the white majority's overwhelming rejection of nonwhite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155849801X
• ISBN13: 9781558498013
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher