{"id":36217,"date":"2014-04-06T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36217"},"modified":"2014-04-06T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T17:34:28","slug":"an-act-to-prevent-amalgamation-with-colored-persons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36217","title":{"rendered":"An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/chronicles\/v006\/v006p178.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/chronicles\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chronicles of Oklahoma<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.okstate.edu\/chronicles\/contents\/v006toc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 6, No. 2<\/a> (June, 1928)<br \/>\nInteresting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History<br \/>\npage 179<\/p>\n<p><strong>James W. Duncan<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Tahlequah, Oklahoma<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any person of color, and the same is hereby prohibited, under the penalty of such corporal punishment as the courts may deem it necessary and proper to inflict, and which shall not exceed fifty <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/stripe#English\" target=\"_blank\">stripes<\/a> for every such offense.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tahlequah,_Oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\">Tahlequah<\/a>, September 19, 1839.<\/p>\n<p>John Ross, Principal Chief<\/p>\n<p>Approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Act to Prevent Amalgamation with Colored Persons Chronicles of Oklahoma Volume 6, No. 2 (June, 1928) Interesting Ante-bellum Laws of the Cherokees, Now Oklahoma History page 179 James W. Duncan Tahlequah, Oklahoma Be it enacted by the National Council, that intermarriage shall not be lawful between a free male or female citizen with any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,3015,20],"tags":[12466,17200,1777],"class_list":["post-36217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-chronicles-of-oklahoma","tag-james-w-duncan","tag-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217","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=36217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}