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Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslims 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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al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al Wazzan al-Fasi, he was a well educated Moroccan. He was captured and enslaved. But he was freed by Pope Leo X. He then took a survey about African and wrote that African people are hypersexual savages, that made him the first known African racist (26).
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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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He wrote a book called "Ordering a Familie", and he argues that slave was just part of a loving family unit that was ordered a particular way (31).
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"He believed Africans were born of a "different Adam", and had a different creation story. This would mean by different species. It was kind of like saying that Africans weren't actually human. They maybe animals, or monsters, or aliens, but not human" (39-40).
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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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He is the son of the youngest son, Increase, of Richard Mather and Sarah, the wife of John Cotton after he died. His parents were Maria and Increase (46).
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Richard Baxter believed that "slavery was helpful for African people. He said there are Africans who wanted to be salves so they could be baptized" (38-39).
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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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Mather wrote a book called Memorable providences, the genius boy, destined for the intellectual and spiritual greatness, was obsessed with witches (49).
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Samuel Parris is a minister in Salem, Massachusetts, when his nine years old daughter suffered processed or cursed by a witch. Then the witch hunt begins"( 49-50).
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"First Great awakening, which swept through the colonies in the 1730s, spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards" (53).
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Franklin started a club called the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia. A club for smart (White) people (57).
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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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Tomas Jefferson "at the time of thirty-three-year-old delegate to the Second Continental Congress, sat down a pen of Declaration of Independence, wrote all men are created equal" (68).
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The North didn't have (as many) slaves as the South, they doesn't want the South to be more powerful than the North. So they create a fraction. Every five slaves equaled to three humans (73-74).
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Half a million enslaved Africans in Haiti fight against French rule. They won and Haiti become Eastern Hemisphere's symbol of freedom (75).
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"Two cynical slaves-snitches-begging for their master's favor, betrayed what would have been the largest slave revolt in the history of the North America" (80).
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"The goal was to stop the import of people from Africa and the Caribbean into America, and fine illegal slave traders" (82-83).
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"Admit that Missouri as a slave sate and a free state to make sure there was still an equal amount of slave states and free states, so that no region, or way of governing, felt disadvantaged" (86-87).
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"By spring if 1826, his health had deteriorated to the point that he couldn't leave home. By summer, he couldn't even leave his bed, so sick he was unable the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence" (88).
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"He favored a gradual abolition- a freedom in steps- but abolition nonetheless" (95-96).
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Nat Turner "was a slave and a preacher, and just as slave owners before the Enlightenment era believed slavery was a holy mission. Turner believed the same was true for freedom" (98).
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"American Anti-Slavery Society (AASS), a group of abolitionists" (99).
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In Samuel Morton's books, Crania Aegyptiaca, he introduced the "narrative that historical there was a "White" Egypt that had Black slaves" (101-102).
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John C. Calhoun, "was fighting even for Texas to become a slave state in 1844 election." (102).
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"In June 1845, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. it outlined Douglass's life an gave a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery."(103).
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Sojourner Truth who was a former female slave. She was a kind of woman who would stand up in a room full of White people and declare her humanity. This women had inspired a White writer to write this book. (104-108).
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Secession means to withdraw from being a member of. People sharing a role one after the other. South Carolina seceded (113-114).
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"but by the summer of 1862, the slave act had been repealed and a bill passed that declared all Confederate-owned Africans who escaped to Union lined or who resided in territories occupied by the Union to be "forever free of their servitude"(115).
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A bill that would morph into an even colder bill by Lincoln, "All persons help as slaves within any state [under rebel control] shall then, thenceforward, and forever, be free "(115-116).
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Reconstruction is to rebuild something that are damaged, to reconstruct. Lincoln want intelligent Black people to have the rights to vote (117).
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In Pennsylvania, a congressman Thaddeus Stevens "fought for the redistribution of land to award former slaves forty acres to work for themselves" (120).
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"On February 3, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was made official" (121).
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"black codes-social codes used to stop Black people from living freely-were created. They would quickly evolve into Jim Crow laws, which were laws that legalized racial segregation" (119).
