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1415
Prince Henry's Caper
Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslim trading depot [in] Morocco" (22). -
Period: 1415 to
History of Racism and Antiracism
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1450
"The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea"
Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslim trading depot [in] Morocco" (22). -
1450
The World's First Racist
According to Kendi and Reynolds, "Zurara was the first person to write about and defend Black human ownership" (25). -
1526
First Known African Racist
Johannes Leo, also known as Leo Africanus, "echoed Zurara's sentiments of Africans, his own people [and called them...] hypersexual savages" (26-7). -
1577
Curse Theory
In Chapter 2 of "Stamped," Reynolds explains that "English travel writer George Best determined [...] that Africans were, in fact, cursed" (30). -
Jamestown's First Slaves
A Latin American ship was seized by pirates and "twenty Angolans [on board were sold to] the governor of Virginia" (36). -
Richard Mather's Arrival
Richard Mather was a Puritan who came to America to practice a "more disciplined and rigid" (32) form of Christianity. -
Cotton Mather is Born
Cotton Mather was 11 "years old [and a] Harvard student" (46). He was a nerd and he's religious. -
"Voluntary" Slaves
According to Richard Baxter, some "Africans [...] wanted to be slaves so that they could be baptized" (39). -
Creation of White Privileges
In response to Nathaniel Bacon's uprising, local government decided to give "all White [...] absolute power to abuse any African person" (45). -
First Antiracist Writing in the Colonies
The Mennonites were against slavery because they "equa[ed]" (41) discrimination based on skin color to discrimination based on religion. -
The Witch Hunt Begins
In Salem, the "witch hunt [had] made the Black face [...] criminality" (50). -
First Great Awakening
"[...] which swept through the colonies in the 1730s", by a man named Jonathan Edwards who lives in Connecticut. -
American Philosophical Society (APS)
Benjamin Frankin created "a club for smart (White) people" (57) to discuss ideas and philosophy. -
The (American) Enlightenment
In the mid-1700s, "new America entered what we now call the Enlightenment Era" (56) -
Phyllis Wheatley's Test
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. -
Declaration of Independence
"Thomas Jefferson [... had] wrote [that] All men are created equal" (68). -
The Three Fifths Compromise
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). -
The Haitian Revolution
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. -
North America's Biggest Uprising
That day "have been the largest slave revolt in the history of North America" (80). There are 50 thousand rebels. -
Jefferson's Slave Trade Act
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]. -
The Missouri Compromise
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]. -
Thomas Jefferson's Death
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. -
Garrison's First Abolition Speech
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]. -
Nat Turner's Rebellion
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. -
AASS Abolitionist Pamphlets
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]. -
Samuel Morton's Theories
A scientist called Samuel Morton, "the father of American anthropology" (101), [the person to researches about skulls of humans]. -
Frederick Douglass' Narrative Published
The book that Frederick Douglass had published, which "outlined Douglass's life and gave a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery" (103). -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The gist of the story is that "we all must be slaves... to god." And "... Black people made the best slaves (to man) (106). -
Start of Civil War
Secession "means to withdraw from being a member of" and South Carlina secessed. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
At that time, "Lincoln was labeled [as] the Great Emancipator" (116), Black people emancipated themselves and about 400,000 of them found freedom. -
End of Civil War
Reconstruction was to re-build something or to change things. Lincoln wants Black people to have the right to vote. -
40 Acres and a Mule
A "Pennsylvania congressman Thaddeus Stevens, [had] fought for the redistribution of land, [...] that slaves of forty acres to work for themselves" (120). -
The Fifteenth Amendment
The 15th Amendment was made for anyone to vote, no matter their "vote, color, or previous condition of servitude" (122). -
Black Codes and Jim Crow
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).
