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king henry convinces his father king john of portugal to capture the main trading depot that the muslims used.
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Zurara is the the first known person to defend the ownership of african people.
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Johannes Leo or Leo Africanus called africans savages and helped spread the claims of Zurara.
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this theory suggested black people are 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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he helped a lot in the Salem witch trials(47)
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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 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 hunts were Started because the puritans were scared that they would get them (50)
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The first great awakening swept the colonies and was spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards who thought every one was human was equal
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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-1700's, "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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the Declaration of Independence is a Declaration thats says the us is a Independent Country and should be recognized as such.(68)
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The Three Fifths Compromise means that three fifths of the slave populations for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representation (74)
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in August 1791 close to half a million enslaved Africans rose up against French rule and the Africans won and were freed (78)
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the Slaves were planning to revolt against there masters but the two slaves snitches snitch on them but it would have been the biggest rebellion in North American history (83)
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in 1807 Thomas Jefferson stop the importing of slaves from Africa and the Caribbean.(85)
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the new Territories of Missouri was purchased and turned into a slave state and Maine into a free state (87)
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by 1826 jefferson health was deteriorating and by the time of his death he owned more than 600 hundred slaves.(92)
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He was against Slavery and he wrote a pamphlet called An Appeal to the Coloured Citizen (96)
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Nat Turner executed a massive slave uprising which he would free the slave and leave the slaves master family killed.(102)
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The pamphlets were to spread awareness across the colonies and to get people to free the slaves.(99)
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said that white people skulls are bigger than black people so he said that white people are smarter.
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his book was published and talks about his life and how he was treated as a slave.(108)
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it talk about how slaves were being treated harshly(108)
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the south seceded from the north and south carolina was the to first to secede and they were worried that the north were going to take their slaves so they started the war
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Lincoln gave black people freedom from slavery.
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lincoln wanted to reconstruct his relationship with the south and give black people the right to vote.
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it was a wartime act proclaimed by general william tecumseh to allot of land for free families.(122)
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gave every one in america including black people the right to vote.(115)
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the jim crow laws enforced segregation against black people and they made them use different water fountains(120)
