{"id":25846,"date":"2012-10-09T20:52:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25846"},"modified":"2013-06-18T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T17:20:12","slug":"the-miscegenation-of-richard-mentor-johnson-as-an-issue-in-the-national-election-campaign-of-1835-1836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25846","title":{"rendered":"The Miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an Issue in the National Election Campaign of 1835-1836"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cwh.1993.0043\" target=\"_blank\">The Miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an Issue in the National Election Campaign of 1835-1836<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/civil_war_history\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/civil_war_history\/toc\/cwh.39.1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 39, Number 1<\/a>, March 1993<br \/>\npages 5-30<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/cwh.1993.0043\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/cwh.1993.0043<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thomas Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>White American men of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931849)\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum era<\/a> abhorred few, if any, things more than the danger of an &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=553\" target=\"_blank\">amalgamation<\/a>&#8221; of their race with African Americans through interracial sexual relations. But their concerns about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> between whites and blacks were usually not a major factor in national politics. However, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Election_of_1836\" target=\"_blank\">election of 1836<\/a>, the Democratic candidate for vice president was Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Mentor_Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Mentor Johnson<\/a>\u00a0of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky<\/a>, who was revealed to be a &#8220;practical amalgamator.&#8221; The opposition to the Democrats\u2014an assortment of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-Masonic_Party\" target=\"_blank\">Antimasons<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whig_Party_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">Whigs<\/a>, and disaffected Democrats supporting three presidential candidates in different parts of the country\u2014exploited Johnson&#8217;s candidacy to make the menace of amalgamation into a national political issue. Its attacks compelled the Democrats, in turn, to deal with the issue of Johnson&#8217;s private life in a manner designed to minimize the damage to their party, and perhaps even make an asset of a liability. The positions taken in the controversy over Johnson&#8217;s miscegenation are of great value and interest, for the spokesmen of the opposing sides had to grapple with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miscegenation of Richard Mentor Johnson as an Issue in the National Election Campaign of 1835-1836 Civil War History Volume 39, Number 1, March 1993 pages 5-30 DOI: 10.1353\/cwh.1993.0043 Thomas Brown White American men of the antebellum era abhorred few, if any, things more than the danger of an &#8220;amalgamation&#8221; of their race with African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,459,8,26,20],"tags":[12374,12372,12373],"class_list":["post-25846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-civil-war-history","tag-richard-mentor-johnson","tag-thomas-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846","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=25846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}