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I recently learned that Alessandro de' Medici might have been an illegitimate child who's mother was a black slave. If this was the case, would there have been any major objection to Alessandro being Duke of Florence, either due to his race or illegitimacy?

by /u/duthracht in /r/AskHistorians

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