As historian Henrice Altink points out, “The Jamaican House of Assembly never issued a law that banned interracial marriage: White Jamaicans could marry Free Blacks and Coloureds; nor did it, in contrast to the North American colonies and the Leeward Islands, adopt a law that fined White men for having sex with

When was the last interracial marriage legalized?

1967 These victories were ensured by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But the bans on interracial marriage were the last to go, in 1967. Most Americans in the 1950s were opposed to interracial marriage and did not see laws banning interracial marriage as an affront to the principles of American democracy.

What was the first interracial marriage?

The first interracial marriage in what is today the United States was that of the woman today commonly known as Pocahontas, who married tobacco planter John Rolfe in 1614. The Quaker Zephaniah Kingsley married (outside the U.S.) a black enslaved woman that he bought in Cuba.