#162 - Looking Back to Move Forward - with Lisa Sharon Harper & Jerry Colonna
The Reboot Podcast
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The First Race Law in Maryland
F fortune was the daughter of Moblin McGee and Sambo game. Her parents were mixed race and she ended up being indentured until she was 31 because they were not married. In 1662, Virginia passed the very first race law that said no longer are we going to count citizenship through the line of the father as British law requires instead, we're going to turn to the Roman law of partisan. And so two years later, Virginia created its own race.
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