Bulletin

Bulletin

Author: Boston Public Library

Publisher:

Published: 1895

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13:

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Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)


The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts

The Fight for Interracial Marriage Rights in Antebellum Massachusetts

Author: Amber D. Moulton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0674967623

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Though Massachusetts banned slavery in 1780, prior to the Civil War a law prohibiting marriage between whites and blacks reinforced the state’s racial caste system. Amber Moulton recreates an unlikely collaboration of reformers who sought to rectify what they saw as an indefensible injustice, leading to the legalization of interracial marriage.