Scimitar wrote that they “weren’t aware” that Vermont ever had an antimiscegenation law.
This is the sort of comment antis make, and they seem to expect ME to Gogle it for them.
Slavery was abolished in Vermont by a court decision in 1775. I was surprised that it came up, considering the number of blacks in Vermont. There were a few hundred blacks there as late as 1970.
Maine was part of Massachusetts for a oong time after the Revolution, though the two were not continguous. It simply adopted its antimiscegenation law from that of the Bay State.
If you KNOW Vermont was the only exception to this rule, let me know. What you are not aware of is of no interest to me.
#1 by Scimitar on 07/06/2007 - 8:03 pm
Bob,
I’m a racialist, not an “anti.” I keep track of these things at my website. Vermont never passed an anti-miscegenation law. The Wikipedia page on anti-miscegenation laws has been updated since I last checked it. Apparently, Vermont was not alone in this respect:
“Only Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alaska, Hawaii, and the federal District of Columbia never enacted them.”
Of those, I am pretty sure Wisconsin, Minnesota, Hawaii, and Alaska also did not pass anti–miscegenation laws. According to the Jim Crow History website, Connecticut passed two anti-miscegenation laws in 1908 and 1933.
Note: For the record, Vermont is also one of the few states in the Union to allow same-sex civic unions.