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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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al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi who was enslaved and freed by Pope Leo X and later "converted him to Christianity, named him Johannes Leo" was the first African to openly go along with European Racism (26).
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English travel writer George Best determined that "it couldn't have been the climate that made darker people inferior, and instead determined that Africans were, in fact, cursed" (30).
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In August 1619, a Spanish ship called the San Juan Bautista was hijacked by 2 pirate ships. The ship was carrying 350 enslaved Angolans. The pirates took 60 of the Angolans and headed to the east (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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In Richard Baxter's writing he argued that he "believed slavery was helpful for African people" And "even said there were 'voluntary slaves,' " (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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When Parris's nine-year-old daughter suffered convulsions and chokes, he believed she'd been possessed or cursed by a witch. The witch hunt began (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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In 1743, Franklin started a club called "the Philosophical Society" in Philadelphia. It was basically "a club for smart (White) people" (57).
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After Cotton Mather's death, his followers continuing his legacy, the new America entered, now called the Enlightenment era (56).
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John Wheatley got 18 of the smartest men in America together in Boston so that they could test his adopted daughter to "see if a Black person could really be as intelligent and literate as Phillis" Even though no one would publish her, but "Wheatley's achievements still proved a point, that black people weren't dumb" (60-61).
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"All men are created equal" neither if he mean it or not, that wasn't the case (68).
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"Every five slaves equaled three humans" (73).
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In August 1791, about half a million enslaved Africans in Haiti rose up against French rule and won. Haiti became the first Eastern Hemisphere's symbol of freedom, (75) and that scared a lot of slave owners in America.
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"The revolt was scheduled for Saturday, August 30, 1800. But two cynical slaves-snitches-begging for their master's favor, betrayed..." (80).
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"He brought about a new Slave Trade Act. 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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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 admit Missouri as a slave state, and admit Maine as a free state to make sure that there was an equal amount of slave and free state(86-87).
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Garrison was unafraid to speak out against colonization, he wrote a pamphlet arguing against the idea that Black people we made to serve White people( 95-96).
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He was a slave and preacher, "he was called upon by God to plan and execute a massive crusade, an uprising that would free slaves..."(98).
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A group of abolitionists, AASS stands for American Anti-Slavery Society (99).
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A book that outlined Douglass' life and Gabe a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery (102-103).
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Uncle Tom believed that we must all be slaves to God, And since "Black people made the best Slaves(to man) they made the best Christians" (104-108).
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The Emancipation is "a bill passed that declared all Confederate-owned Africans who escaped to Union lines or who resided in territories occupied by the Union to be 'forever free of their servitude' " (115-116)
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Pennsylvania congressman, Thaddeus Stevens fought for the redistribution of land to award former slaves forty acres to work for themselves. (120)
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