The author [of the Miscegenation pamphlet] finds an emblem of his success
in the blending of many to make the one new race, in the crowning of the
dome above this Capitol with the bronze statue of Liberty! It is neither
black nor white, but the intermediate miscegen, typifying the exquisite
composite race which is to arise out of this war for abolition, and whose
destiny is to rule the continent.

-- Mr. Samuel Sullivan Cox (D-Ohio) in Congress, 17 February 1864 ¹

Consanguinity or Miscegenation

Upon the dissolution by decree or sentence of nullity of any marriage that
is prohibited on account of consanguinity between the parties, or of any
marriage between a white person and a negro, the issue of the marriage
shall be deemed to be illegitimate.

-- 1911 Nebraska Compiled Statutes, chap. 25, sec. 31 ²

[I]ncest proper, and its metaphorical form as the violation of a minor (by
someone "old enough to be her father," as the expression goes), even com-
bines in some countries with its direct opposite, inter-racial sexual rela-
tions, an extreme form of exogamy, as the two most powerful inducements
to horror and collective vengeance.

-- Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Elementary Structures of Kinship ( 1949) ³

-- So it's the miscegenation, not the incest, which you cant bear.
Henry doesn't answer. . . .

-- William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! ( 1936) ⁴

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