I’ll never fully understand why a lot of the Virginia lawmakers (as well as the ones in Richmond) were so hellbent on chipping away the rights of African Americans. I haven’t sat down and had a discussion with anyone who had been alive during that period who could explain how historical context normalized segregation based on race, I only know that it happened and (thankfully) that it is beyond immoral. 

This makes me wonder if there’ll be some revelation in the future that causes society to deem some other unjust institution immoral, and if people would look back on our time in history in similar ways. As referenced in the first few chapters, slavery hid itself under different names, and many were blind to how brutally it was robbing human beings of their rights by using excuses relating to the legal system, religion, and so on.