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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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