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Recap / Bonanza S 13 E 15

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  • A Day in the Limelight: After 12 1/2 years and 404 episodes, Victor Sen Yung finally gets his turn in the spotlight in this story about interracial relationships, true love and heartbreak as Hop Sing falls in love with a beautiful white woman, Missy, while panning for gold in the mountains.
  • Entitled to Have You: Or not, as Jim Crow laws prohibiting interracial marriage were in full force in the early 1870s, specifically to stop men of anything but European descent (Hop Sing is Asian) from marrying a white woman, who were deemed to "belong" to white men.

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