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Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslim trading depot [in] Morocco" (22).
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According to Kendi and Reynolds, "Zurara was the first person to write about and defend Black human ownership" (25).
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Johannes Leo, also known Leo Africanus, "echoed Zurara's sentiments of Africans, his own people [and called them...] hypersexual savages" (26-7).
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In Chapter 2 of "Stamped," Reynolds explains that "English travel writer George Best determined [...] that Africans were, in fact, cursed" (30).
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A Latin American ship was seized by pirates and "twenty Angolans [on board were sold to] the governor of Virginia"(36).
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Richard Mather was a Puritan who came to America to practice a "more disciplined and rigid" (32) form of Christianity.
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Through a twisted family line "Increase and Maria have a son. February 12, 1663." (47-48.)
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According to Richard Baxter, some "Africans [...] wanted to be slaves so that they could be baptized" (39).
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In response to Nathaniel Bacon's uprising, local government decided to give "all Whites [...] absolute power to abuse any African person" (45).
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The Mennonites were against slavery because they "equat[ed]" (41) discrimination based on skin color to discrimination based on religion.
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After "Parris's nine-year-old daughter suffered convulsions and chokes" he believed it was the act of a witch, then starting the witch hunt.(49-50.)
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Another set of racist rules were created that "swept through the colonies in the 1730s".(53)
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Benjamin Franklin created "a club for smart (White) people" (57) to discuss ideas and philosophy.
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In the mid-1700's, "new America entered what we now call the Enlightenment Era" (56).
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Wheatley "proved herself [as intelligent and] human" (60) by passing a test given by some of the smartest men in the country at the time.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote a document main point being "All men are created equal." (68).
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An agreement stating "Every five slave equaled three humans." 73-74
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Nearly, "half a million enslaved African in Haiti rose up against French rule." Shocking everyone and winning (78).
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Possibly the biggest revolt planned for "Saturday, August 30,1800" never happened due to "two cynical slaves slaves-snitches" (80).
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Thomas Jefferson created a act "to stop the import of people from Africa and the Caribbean into America" yet it had no real effect (85).
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Congress made Missouri a slave state but to maintain "Balance" they also admitted Maine(89).
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Finally on July 4 he had "his final sight" surrounded by his slaves (92).
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Asked by the ACS William Lloyd Garrison gave his speech. "He was smart and forward-thinking"(99)
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A "slave and a preacher" ready to rise against those in power(102).
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Garrison using his writing to spread knowledge. "He wrote a book the refuted colonizationists " and introduced AASS (103).
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Samuel Morton "was measuring the skulls of human" to determine that white people had larger skulls meaning greater knowledge (106).
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The book represented the knowledge he was able to gain as a slave. "It outlined Douglass's life and gave firsthand account of the horrors of slavery" as well (108).
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Harriet Beecher Stowe shared ideas about the injustices of slavery. In Uncle Tom's Cabin that "exploded and became the biggest book of its time" (112).
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The chance to fight for themselves and get revenge. Slaves "wanted to fight against their slave owners" joining northern soldiers in battle (120).
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Now a bill passed declaring slaves shall be free. For this "Lincoln was labeled the Great Emancipator" (122).
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Civil war ended April 1865 Lincoln had a plan. A thought no president had before him, the black people "(the intelligent ones) should have the right to vote"(123).
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The Fifteenth Amendment was made on February 3,1870. Stating "no one could be prohibited from voting due to" their race/color(128).
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Restrictive laws made to limit the freedom of African Americans. "They would quickly evolve unto Jim Crow laws" legalizing racial segregation." (126).
