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Miscegenation   Listen
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Miscegenation  n.  A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white. Note: Until the late twentieth century, misceganation was a crime in some states of the Southern United States.





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... interfered with his business. In the first place, certain white men, who became jealous of his success, burned him out and the insurance companies refused to carry him any longer. Moreover, having to do chiefly with white men he was charged by his people with favoring the miscegenation of races. Whether or not this was well founded is not yet known, but his children and grandchildren did marry whites and were lost ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Vol. I. Jan. 1916 • Various


Words linked to "Miscegenation" :   miscegenate, facts of life, breeding, procreation


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