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Colonial-era marriage challenged race norms
On the morning of Oct. 4, 1703, Thomas Bedunah and Lydia Craft made the four-mile trek from Roxbury to the Boston home of Justice of the Peace Samuel Sewall, the one man they trusted would agree to marry an interracial couple.
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