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I spoke with art director and editor Drew Takahashi and producer Clementine Briand to learn more about the series - and this episode, in particular.

Set in the decades after Bacon's Rebellion, the episode follows an African man and an English woman - husband and wife - who sing of their fate and their future as law by law, edict by edict, their family, their marriage, and their love are made illegal. In Episode Two, "How America Outlawed Interracial Marriage," the series gets into the impact of laws that made interracial marriage illegal in the early 1700s (and weren't reversed until the Supreme Court ruled those laws unconstitutional in 1967). Through the lens of American history, the show illustrates the ways that the concept of whiteness has shaped our modern reality by enforcing the subjugation and separation of people based on the color of their skin.

WORLD Channel, in partnership with PBS’ Independent Lens, presents The History Of White People In America, a new animated musical series about America’s reckoning with race and injustice.