Yes, and someone posted the other day Lincoln's public stand as early as 1837 against that type law.
Walt
Really, then what a duplicitous man he was, because years later he made it painfully clear that he personally believed in the inferiority of the black man, was completely opposed to the idea of inter-racial marriages, and even went so far to embrace the idea that blacks should be removed from the presence of whites and shipped off to Africa. I know it shatters your carefully crafted imaginary world, but the man was guilty of race prejudice just like most Americans back then. Remember the words of Frederick Douglass?