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The idea of what race was back then was completely cracked. Also most states banned marriage, but not sex, kind of like how you can't marry your dog in Canada but there's no laws against bestiality. Then you had weirder groups like the Quakers who thought you could end slavery by breeding black people and making them white.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States
> For example, a daughter born to an Indian father and Irish mother in Maryland in 1680 was classified as a "mulatto" and sold into slavery.[11]
