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In America, interracial sex brought private pleasure but public chastising. In 1662, when Virginia passed a law against fortification with a slave, the public displayed their distaste for racial intermixture. There was a stated fine for fornicating between a black and white that was twice the amount the regular fine. Interracial marriage was banned in Virginia in 1661, Massachusetts in 1705, in Maryland in 1715 and after, in Delaware, Pennsylvania, North and South Caroline and Georgia. In a high slave rate state, it became necessary to contain the slaves in a “tight web of authority and to reassert again and again the dominance of whites” (Slavery in American Society).