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His name was John, the first known antiblack racist in colonial America.
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Prince Henry was the son of King John of Portugal. he convinced King John to capture the main trading depot from the northeaster tip of Mcorocco.(22)
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this actually came from Aristotle, who questioned whether Africans were born "this way" or if the heat of the continent made them inferior.
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But neither Prince Henry nor King John of Portugal
was given the title World’s First Racist, because the truth
is, capturing people wasn’t an unusual thing back then.
Just a fact of life. That illustrious moniker would go to a
man named neither Henry nor John but something way
more awesome, who did something not awesome at all—
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Countries are cursed by their institutions when the rules of the game, and the shared beliefs and expectations that underpin those rules, produce outcomes that harm the majority of the population, if not portions of the ruling class.
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He believed Africans were born of a "different Adam," and had a different creation story.
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was named America's first legislative leader. first thing he did was set the price of tobacco, seeing as it would be the country's cash crop.
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he created a new villain as a distraction.
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He even said there were "voluntary slaves," as in Africans who wanted to be slaves so that they could be baptized.
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He believed that the most unblemished, purest, perfect minds belonged to Whites, which basically meant Africans had dirty brains.
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An eleven-year-old Harvard student (the youngest of all time), he was obviously a nerd, and no top of all that, he was extremely religious.
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which swept through the colonies in the 1730s, spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards.
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His father owned the second-largest number of enslaved people in Albemarle County, Virginia.
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Wrote a pamphlet saying that Black people weren't born savages but instead were made savages by slavery.
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In 1772, John Wheatley, Phillis's adoptive father, got eighteen of the smartest men in America together in Boston so that they could test her.
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Wrote, "All men are created equal."
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created the House and the Senate.
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Every five slaves equaled three humans. so, just to do the math, that's like saying if there were fifteen slaves in the room, on paper, they counted as only nine people.
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Became president in 1801.
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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.
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Admit Missouri as a slave, but they'd also admit Maine as a free state to make sure there was still an equal amount of slave states and free states and free states, so that no region, or way of governing, felt disadvantaged.
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Boston had grown to nearly sixty thousand people and was fully immersed in New England's industrial revolution, which was now running on the wheels of southern cotton.
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He was smart and forward-thinking and worked as an editor of a Quaker-run abolitionist newspaper.
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John C. Calhoun, a senator from South Carolina, was the emcee for slavery—an effective one—there to rock the racist crowd.
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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 and gave a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery. -
The book was called Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
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Black people as people but know that mistreating and enslaving
them are bad for business. Bad for your brand. Bad for your opportunity. That’s more in line of who Lincoln was. -
Lincoln was against Black voting.
Lincoln was against racial equality.
Lincoln and the party pledged not to challenge southern slavery.
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The biggest change agent in the war was that slaves wanted to fight against their slave owners, and therefore join Northern soldiers in battle.
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he basically reversed a lot of Lincoln’s promises, allowing Confederate states to bar Blacks from voting, and making sure their emancipation was upheld only if Black people didn’t break laws.
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The abolitionist William Lloyd garrison like that -a man with power and privilege, not afraid to try.
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He believed that because emancipation was imminent, his job as an abolitionist was done.
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Lincoln’s successor was forcefully breaking in. And breaking down what had been, for Black people, a breakthrough.
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