Othello was subject to xenophobia (that's a big part of play) but he was a general married to a woman we'd now call white. His marriage would've been impossible in many parts of USA from circa 1660s-1967. Why? Laws shaped by proto-Englightenment & Enlightenment racism.https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/1003104583474974720 …
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During the age of the slave trade and development of full-on chattel slavery, a much more obvious reason.
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There's an *extremely* obvious target here - a proto-modern capitalism that valued humans on the same scale as animals.
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The laws?
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Catholics did not prohibit it, I thought. Every country and principality had different laws.
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Who, exactly?
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