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There were many facets of this. Before slavery came to the US, interracial relationships were illegal in the colonies, though miscegenation didn't even exist as a word. Once slavery was practiced, laws against interracial relationships were used to help prevent slave uprisings and to divide people into two groups, making it easy to tell the slaves from the free. Then there were the religious beliefs and the racism.

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