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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 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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Look on pg. 46-47 for evidence.
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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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Look for evidence on pg. 49-50.
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Look for evidence on pg. 53.
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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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Pg. 73-74
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Pg. 75
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Pg. 80
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Pg. 86-7
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Pg. 95-6
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Pg. 99
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The report said that "Free Blacks were insane and enslaved Blacks were sane" (101) indicating that African American slaves had to be under the control of an owner to stay rational.
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Morton was a scientist who examined human skulls in which came to the conclusion, “ White people had bigger skulls and therefore greater intellectual capacity,”
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Published, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. It outlined Douglass’s life.."
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The South began to withdraw, a secession. It says that there "were now two governments, like rival gangs."
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Abraham Lincoln passed a bill in which said, “All persons held as slaves within any state [under rebel control] shall then, thenceforward, and forever, be free.”
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A result of the long-standing disagreement over the institution of slavery in which Abraham announced that "Blacks (the intelligent ones) should have the right to vote." (117)
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This was a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William to allot of land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres.
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The Amendment made it so the right of citizens shall not be denied because of race or color. Pg. 121
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After the Civil War, state governments that had been part of the Confederacy tried to limit the voting rights of black citizens and prevent contact between black and white citizens in public places.
