This question comes from watching The Frankenstein Chronicles, and there’s some minor spoilers below, so if you want to watch it stop reading now.

In the show, one of the main characters is a black policeman and intends to marry a white girl. Would these two things (the profession, and the marriage) be accepted in the time period i.e. 1820s / 1830s?

Obviously the show is not intended to be an accurate period drama, given that it’s about resurrecting the dead, but I’m interested to know about the above.