Miscegenation: Making Race in America - Paperbackby Elise Lemire (Author) In the years between the Revolution and the Civil War, as the question of black political rights was debated more and more vociferously, descriptions and pictorial representations of whites coupling with blacks proliferated in the North. Novelists, short story writers, poets, journalists, and political cartoonists imagined that political equality would be followed by widespread inter racial sex and marriage. Legally possible