Almighty God Created the Races | University of North Carolina Press ~ Fay Botham

Almighty God Created the Races

Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law

Fay Botham

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/2009
Pages: 288
Subject: Religion, Social Science, Law | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807899229

DESCRIPTION

In this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect on legal decisions concerning miscegenation and marriage in the century following the Civil War. She contends that the white southern Protestant notion that God "dispersed" the races and the American Catholic emphasis on human unity and common origins point to ways that religion influenced the course of litigation and illuminate the religious bases for Christian racist and antiracist movements.