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Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslim trading depot [in] Morocco" (22).
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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 as 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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Cotton Mather was 11 "years old [and a] Harvard student" (46). He was a nerd and he's religious.
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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 White [...] absolute power to abuse any African person" (45).
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The Mennonites were against slavery because they "equa[ed]" (41) discrimination based on skin color to discrimination based on religion.
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In Salem, the "witch hunt [had] made the Black face [...] criminality" (50).
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"[...] which swept through the colonies in the 1730s", by a man named Jonathan Edwards who lives in Connecticut.
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Benjamin Frankin created "a club for smart (White) people" (57) to discuss ideas and philosophy.
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In the mid-1700s, "new America entered what we now call the Enlightenment Era" (56)
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Wheatley "proved herself [as intelligent and] human" (80) by passing a test given by some of the smartest men in the country at the time.
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"Thomas Jefferson [... had] wrote [that] All men are created equal" (68).
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For every 5 slaves, it equals 3 humans. "... just to do math, that's like saying if there were fifteen slaves in the room, ... they counted as only nine people" (74).
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In August 1791, about "half a million enslaved Africans in Haiti rose up [to fight] against French rule" (75). The Africans won the war in Haiti and Haiti became the symbol of freedom at the Easter Hemispere.
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That day "have been the largest slave revolt in the history of North America" (80). There are 50 thousand rebels.
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The president, Thomas Jefferson "brought about the new Slave Trade Act." (82). [His goal is to stop the people from African and the Caribbean from going to America.] Then he started the breeding slaves by "forcing their men and women slaves [...] could keep up with all the farming demands" (83) [at the South].
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Missouri is considered a slave state, "but they'd also admit Maine as a free state [...] equal amount of slave states and free states, so that no region" (86-87) [would feel left out].
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At Thomas Jefferson's "final lucid moment, [...] death being the ultimate equalizer-in the comfort of slavery." (90) The slaves are so happy that they never felt that happy before.
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Garrison was not afraid to speak against colonization. "He had written a pamphlet, An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, arguing" (96) [Black people should serve White people].
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Nat Turner "was a slave and a preacher. [... he had a] plan and a massive crusade" (98) which will free slaves and to leave their masters.
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AASS, aka the American Anti-Slavery Society, "is a group of abolitionists [... and] Garrison [started to] flooded the market with new and [more] improved abolitionist information" (99) [to every social media].
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A scientist called Samuel Morton, "the father of American anthropology" (101), [the person to researches about skulls of humans].
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The book that Frederick Douglass had published, which "outlined Douglass's life and gave a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery" (103).
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The gist of the story is that "we all must be slaves... to god." And "... Black people made the best slaves (to man) (106).
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Secession "means to withdraw from being a member of" and South Carlina secessed.
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At that time, "Lincoln was labeled [as] the Great Emancipator" (116), Black people emancipated themselves and about 400,000 of them found freedom.
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Reconstruction was to re-build something or to change things. Lincoln wants Black people to have the right to vote.
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A "Pennsylvania congressman Thaddeus Stevens, [had] fought for the redistribution of land, [...] that slaves of forty acres to work for themselves" (120).
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The 15th Amendment was made for anyone to vote, no matter their "vote, color, or previous condition of servitude" (122).
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Black codes are the "social codes used to stop Black people from living free" [and Jim Crow's law is] "that legalized racial segregation" (119).
