miscegenation

Ugly Echoes of Historical Miscegenation Panic in Federal Trial of Arbery's Killers

by Elise Lemire

Text messages revealed in the federal trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers reveal a potent fear of interracial sexuality that has long shadowed conflicts over power in American society. 

The Birth, and Life, of a Word

by Ralph Keyes

One of the most widely-used terms in discussions of American racism has its roots in a campaign by two pro-slavery writers to troll abolitionists through a fake tract promoting "miscegenation."

America's First Political Dirty Trick

by Harold Holzer

Credit: Smithsonian.Reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., from The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer and the New-York Historical Society. Copyright © 2013 by the New-York Historical Society.