The mingling of the black and the white races. The word is used by Delolme, 1775 (N.E.D.), with reference to Normans and Saxons.
1839. The Senator further makes the broad charge that Abolitionists wish to enforce the unnatural system of amalgamation. We deny the fact.—Mr. Morris of Ohio, U.S. Senate, Feb. 9: Cong. Globe, p. 174, Appendix.
1840. Mr. Johnson of Maryland considered the question of abolition was but one degree in the rear of amalgamation.—House of Representatives, Jan. 28: id., p. 150.
1847. “Amalgamation,” even by marriage, is not at all dreaded here [in Texas]. Parties of white and coloured persons not unfrequently come over from Louisiana, procure a Catholic Priest to solemnize the marriage contract for them, and then return.—‘Life of Benjamin Lundy,’ p. 117 (Phila.).
