my baby's in the white fluffy clouds

Ooh, I found another one, suitably obscure: a while ago, I picked up on remainder a little book entitled "Louisa May Alcott on Race, Sex, and Slavery," edited by Sarah Elbert. It contains four short stories, which the editor calls "abolitionist interracial romances". They're not actually good or as exciting as the title makes them sound, but they're interesting as a historical phenomenon. The first in the collection, "M.L.," deals with a former slave who can pass for white and becomes engaged to a white woman; she finds out before the wedding, but nobly marries him anyway. It's hard to believe now that it was shocking at the time, but I guess it was.