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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You mean laws enacted by people who thought Spinoza was a dangerous radical?
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In Colonial America? During the time of the Salem Witch trials?
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Sigh. Laws were in Virginia & Maryland -- i.e. places where settlers were not puritans.
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