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Prince Henry's goal was to capture the "Muslim trading depot [in] morocco" (pg 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 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 "an eleven-year-old Harvard student (the youngest of all time ), he was obviously a nerd, and on top of that, he was extremely 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, the 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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The witch hunt began. Over the next few months, as bewitching instances continued to happen, people continued to be accused of witchcraft.
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The Frist Great Awakening, which swept through the colonies in the 1730s, spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards.
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Benjamin Franklin 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" (60) by passing a test given by some of the smartest men in the country at the time.
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In 1776, Thomas Jefferson who at the time was 33. He sat down to pen the Declaration of Independence. At the beginning of the declaration he wrote, "All men are created equal."
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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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In August 1791, close to half a million enslaved Africans in Haiti rose up against French rule. A revolt that the Africans in Haiti won. Haiti would become the Eastern Hemisphere"s symbol of freedom.(75)
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The revolt was scheduled for Saturday, August 30, 1800. It could have been the largest slave revolt in the history of North America
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In 1807, when, as president, 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)
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820. Congress agreed to go on and admit Missouri as a slave state, but they'd also admit Maine as a free state to make sure there was still an equal amount of slave state and free states. (86)
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In his final lucid moment, Thomas Jefferson lay there dying in the comfort of slavery. Surrounded by comfort those slaves never felt. (88)
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Garrison was a man. He was smart and forward-thinking and worked as an editor of a Quaker-run abolitionist newspaper. He spoke about it at the ACS conference.(95)
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He was called upon by God to plan and execute a massive crusade, an uprising that would free slaves, and in so doing would leave slave master, their wives, and even their children slaughtered All in the name of liberation. (98)
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Garrison began flooding the martet with new and improved abolitionist information.And the slaveholder had no clue what was coming: a million antislavery pamphlets distributed by the end of the year.(99)
