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That was a little puzzling to me too, Kari. It was almost as if the area as a whole viewed the Jewish community as "the good kind" of minority, willing to overlook Christian-Judeo marriages as less of an offense than marriages between blacks and whites. After all, the Constitution excused freedom of religion explicitly. Not so much freedom of race. -Cash | That was a little puzzling to me too, Kari. It was almost as if the area as a whole viewed the Jewish community as "the good kind" of minority, willing to overlook Christian-Judeo marriages as less of an offense than marriages between blacks and whites. After all, the Constitution excused freedom of religion explicitly. Not so much freedom of race. -Cash | ||
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| + | Does anyone else agree with what Rothman says about Issac and Nancy- that their success was proof not only of their intelligence, foresight and shrewdness, but also of their luck? Can the successful marriage and life of a freed black woman and Jewish man be the reult of anything but luck? - Celia | ||
== Chapter 3 - Brothels and Prostitution == | == Chapter 3 - Brothels and Prostitution == | ||
