Tag: William Nelson

  • Making Men: Enlightenment Ideas of Racial Engineering The American Historical Review Volume 115, Issue 5 (December 2010) pages 1364-1394 DOI: 10.1086/ahr.115.5.1364 William Max Nelson, Assistant Professor of History University of Toronto A minor nobleman from Alsace, traveling in French colonial Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) on the eve of the French and Haitian revolutions, expressed  surprise that…

  • How Indiana Punishes Miscegenation The New York Times 1879-05-21 Terre Haute, Ind., May 20.—William Nelson, a colored man, was sentenced to-day to pay a fine of $5,000 and be imprisoned in the Penitentiary for one year for marrying a white woman. The prosecution originated in spite, but Nelson was convicted under the law of 1856,…