DOI: 10.7910/dvn/u8ua8e
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1911, H 1038 joint committee on the judiciary - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Frederick W. Peabody

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Marriage laws &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763671"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763671&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Courtenay Crocker, Boston; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frederick W. Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1911-01-18,1911-01-24 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 18, 1911 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 24, 1911 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Interracial marriage, miscegenation, Caucasian race, racial purity, 1843, slavery, militant abolitionists, includes address, ["…That in all other sections of the world where there ever has been such admixture of Caucasian and Negro blood, it has heretofore been represented in the progeny of males of the Caucasian race and females of the Negro race; but that in this Commonwealth the Caucasian race is being degraded and tainted through the descendants of men of the negro race and women of the Caucasian race. That for every mulatto child born of a white mother the proper descendant of that mother, to wit, a white child, is displaced, and an injury in a double sense inflicted upon the white race..."], ["...That since that time this Commonwealth has held out to the Negro race in the Southern part of the country the inducement of marriage here with a white person, until now there can be no doubt that the lure of the male negro to Massachusetts is the hope and expectation of a white wife..."], [bill stated: "Section 1. No White person shall intermarry with a Negro, Indian, or Mulatto."] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1911, H 1038 joint committee on the judiciary - leave to withdraw &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.&lt;/p&gt;