A single stanza celebrating patriarchal concubinage, winding off with a chorus in honor of patriarchal drunkenness, would be a trumpet call, summoning from bush and brake, highway and hedge, and sheltering fence, a brotherhood of kindred affinities, each claiming Abraham or Noah as his patron saint, and shouting, "My name is legion.

Is not Southern slavery guilty of a most heaven-daring crime, in substituting concubinage for God's institution of marriage? 2d.

In 1902 Florida makes miscegenation a felony, and in 1908 Louisiana declares concubinage between a Caucasian and a negro to be also a felony, while Oklahoma adopts the miscegenation law.

At New Orleans and thereabouts particularly, concubinage, along with the well known "quadroon balls," was a systematized practice.