Interracial marriage

May 2018 wedding of British royal Prince Harry to American actress Meghan Markle

marriage between individuals of different racial backgrounds

woman who advertises for marriage

Pejorative term used by racists

South Africa apartheid law

legislation prohibiting interracial relationships

Cassare or calissare (from Portuguese casar, "to marry") was the term applied to the marriage alliances, largely in West Africa, set up between European and African slave traders; the "husband" was European and the wife/concubine African. This was not marriage under Christian auspices, although there might be an African ceremony; there were few clerics in equatorial Africa, and the "wives" could not marry since they had not been baptized. Male monogamy was not expected. As such, concubinage is a more accurate term. The multinational Quaker slave trader and polygamist, Zephaniah Kingsley purcha