“For prevention of that abominable mixture and spurious which hereafter may increase in this dominion, as well as by Negroes, mulatto, and Indians intermarrying with English, or other white women, as by their unlawful accompanying with one another, In the 17th century, exile usually functioned as a death sentence: “ In 1691, The Commonwealth of Virginia bans all interracial marriages, threatening to exile whites who marry people of color. Yet, it is quite obvious their were many affairs. First of all relationships between white and blacks were considered illegal and socially immoral in early American history. When talking about slavery it is important to re-iterate how racist our forefather’s were. While branding them was to break their wills and “keep them in line”. Racism can be a valuable tool used to enslave another human being. In a very sense of the word, were our forefather’s racist? The answer is yes. Slave Breeding, Branding and trading were our forefather’s that racist?
