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White Affirmative Action: Rebroadcast

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Dina's Moving On, No Time to Linger

In 1705, Virginia's House of Burgesses passed the Virginia slave codes. Those laws locked in a brutal system of white supremacy by giving slave owners sweeping rights to control and even torture African people they owned. It was also illegal for black people to employ white people. These two legislative moves drove a hard wedge between poor white and poor black people who sometimes joined forces against the white elite.

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