Interracial dating in alabama

Laws against interracial marriage—and the taboos against black-white sex that they codify—have been the central weapon in the oppression of African-Americans since the dawn of slavery.President Abraham Lincoln's detractors charged him in the 1864 presidential campaign with promoting the mongrelization of the races (that's where the coinage "miscegenation," which now sounds racist, comes from).We bring like-minded singles together who are open to new experiences with different cultures and ethnicities, either within your community, or abroad.Unlike other sites, singles here start out with something in common - A love for singles from other races and ethnicities.

Others say that conservative's interest in dating interracially has been there all along.

Even interracial marriage, though uncommon, was allowed.

But as race slavery replaced servitude as the South's labor force, interracial sex threatened to blur the distinctions between white and black—and thus between free and slave.

Up through the Civil War, only two states, Pennsylvania in 1780 and Massachusetts in 1843—hotbeds of abolitionist activity—repealed their bans. But when federal troops pulled out, the bans returned, along with a whole complex of new discriminatory laws known as Jim Crow.

In the West, 13 states passed new laws against interracial marriage, many of them targeting white-Asian unions along with white-black ones.