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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: The First Anti-Amalgamation Law (1664)
Description: It’s September 19th. This day, in 1664, Marlyand passed the first “anti-amalgamation” law in the colonies, outlawing the marriage between Black men and English women.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss how these anti-miscegenation laws were first written, and how they were altered, evolved, and tested over the course of two centuries.
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