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slavery brought upon us by the curse of many colors within the Negro race but that is no reason why we should ourselves perpetuate the evil hence instead of encouraging a wholesale bastardy of the race, we feel that we should now set out to create a race type and standard of our own which could not, in the future, be stigmatized by bastardy, but could be recognized and respected as the true race type anteceding our own time.

The Azibo Nosology II: epexegesis and 25th anniversary update: 55 culture-focused mental disorders suffered by African descent people

'Yet touch this sparingly, as 'twere far off, /Because, my lord, you know my mother lives.' (93-4) A man who can be so mindful of his mother's reputation, while insinuating the bastardy of her eldest son, will go far.

Finding King Richard III

1939: The Bastardy Bill made blood tests compulsory in paternity cases.

HAPPENED THIS DAY

I believe that these intestate succession statutes that require a father to take formal steps to acknowledge or legitimize a child before that child can legally inherit from him are remnants of the days of slavery and anti-miscegenation laws, when "fictions and presumptions about bastardy and marriage served definite purposes in a legal system seeking easy ways to determine who was eligible to inherit property." (60) There is no place for such strict requirements in modern law.

Mother's baby, father's maybe! - Intestate succession: when should a child born out of wedlock have a right to inherit from or through his or her biological father?

1) What might a Bastardy Law and White Slave Law be aimed at preventing?

The urbanization of the Tohono O'Odham: using vice, crime and sexuality to explore cultural interaction and assimilation

Bastardy and paternity charges comprise only a fraction of these trials: Some 162 women were charged with conceiving illegitimate children in this period, and 142 men were charged with fathering those same children.

"And the author of wickedness surely is most to be blamed": the Declaration of Debora Proctor

Common law in the American colonies incorporated many provisions of the English law of bastardy but gradually modified them during the nineteenth and especially the twentieth centuries.

The Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered

She was reviled for her sins--a dispatch from London to an American paper read, "It is a case of glaring, flagrant harlotry and bastardy, taken into the pure homes of English wives and daughters, and condoned by the men because she is so beautiful, so fascinating." Yet Bernhardt was also lauded for her hypnotic performances.

The original Queen of drama

It was a tribute to Henry's overwhelming personal authority that the tacit contradiction between his daughters' bastardy (which had been enshrined in statute law in the 1530s) and their standing as his heirs was not challenged in his lifetime.

Exception to the rule: the idea of a female monarch was met with hostility in medieval England; in the 12th century Matilda's claim to the throne had led to a long and bitter civil war. But the death of Edward VI in 1553 offered new opportunities for queenship

Bastardy, impotence, lack of physical strength in a physical world...

Morning Serail; Dai Country by Alun Richards