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The term paramour rights refers to the American practice of a white man taking a black woman to whom he was not married as his concubine.
The term " paramour rights " was first used by Zora Neale Hurston.
The practice began prior to the Civil War and was reinforced afterward by anti-miscegenation laws, which prohibited interracial marriage between whites and non-whites.
Hurston first wrote about the practice in her anthropological studies of the turpentine camps of North Florida in the 1930s.
She believed that the death knell of paramour rights was sounded by the trial of Ruby McCollum, a black woman who murdered her white lover, Dr. C. Leroy Adams, in Live Oak, Florida, in 1952.
McCollum's trial was covered by Hurston for the Pittsburgh Courier.

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