In his 1609 sermon, the colonial Reverend William Symonds railed from the dangers of miscegenation
Symonds cited this new biblical injunction that “God’s people in Canaan ‘keepe so you might be in a position to on their very own,’” and “perhaps now not wed nor throw in the towel marriage to your heathen, which may well be uncircumcized,” and he cautioned that the “breaking relating […]