{"id":15807,"date":"2013-03-20T03:51:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T03:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2013-03-20T03:51:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T03:51:56","slug":"the-loving-bride-drank-the-blood-made-the-necessary-oath-and-his-honour-joined-their-hands-to-the-great-satisfaction-of-all-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15807","title":{"rendered":"The loving bride drank the blood, made the necessary oath, and his honour joined their hands, to the great satisfaction of all parties."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In 1819 a Scotsman named James Flint crossed the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Atlantic_Ocean\" target=\"_blank\">Atlantic Ocean<\/a>, made his way from New York to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pittsburgh\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh<\/a>, sailed down the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ohio_river\" target=\"_blank\">Ohio<\/a>, and settled for eighteen months in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeffersonville,_Indiana\" target=\"_blank\">Jeffersonville, Indiana<\/a>, just opposite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisville,_Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Louisville, Kentucky<\/a>. His letters home described everything from native trees and shrubs to the \u201ctaciturnity\u201d of American speech, \u201cadapted to business more than to intellectual enjoyment.\u201d Soon after arriving in Jeffersonville, Flint recounted the time when a \u201cnegro man and a white woman came before the squire of a neighbouring township, for the purpose of being married.\u201d The official refused, citing a prohibition on \u201call sexual intercourse between white and coloured people, under a penalty for each offence.\u201d Then he thought the better of it. He \u201csuggested, that if the woman could be qualified to swear that there was black blood in her, the law would not apply. <strong>The hint was taken,\u201d Flint wrote, \u201cand the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lancet_(surgery)#Lancet\" target=\"_blank\">lancet<\/a> was immediately applied to the Negro\u2019s arm. The loving bride drank the blood, made the necessary oath, and his honour joined their hands, to the great satisfaction of all parties.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Daniel J. Sharfstein, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=6601\" target=\"_blank\">Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-Drop Rule, 1600\u20131860<\/a>,&#8221; <em>Minnesota Law Review<\/em>, Volume 91, Number 3 (February 2007): 592-656.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1819 a Scotsman named James Flint crossed the Atlantic Ocean, made his way from New York to Pittsburgh, sailed down the Ohio, and settled for eighteen months in Jeffersonville, Indiana, just opposite Louisville, Kentucky. His letters home described everything from native trees and shrubs to the \u201ctaciturnity\u201d of American speech, \u201cadapted to business more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,459],"tags":[2766,2767],"class_list":["post-15807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","category-history","tag-daniel-j-sharfstein","tag-daniel-sharfstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}