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Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslim trading depot [in] Morocco" (22). I think this happened because he wanted to make money.
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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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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 Salem witch hunt made the Black face to face of criminality." (50)
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First Great Awakening, which swept through the colonies in the 1730's, 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 1700's, new America emered what we now call the Enlightment Era.
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"All mens are created equal." Thomas Jefferson.(68) I think he said that because back in the old days, men were not treated equally.
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"In August 1791, close to half a million of enslaved Africans in Haiti rose up against French rules." Reading this make me feel that there were lots of enslaved Africans dead.
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"There were hundreds of captives march on Richmond"
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Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801 and changed the Slave Trade Act.
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"Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free state."
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"Jefferson believed that sending Black people back to where they came from would make America what it was always meant to be in his eyes."
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"He was called upon by God to plan and execute a massive crusade, an uprising that would free slaves."
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"Garrison began flooding the market with new and improve abolitionist information."
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"Census report of 1840 that free Black were insane and enslaved Blacks were sane."
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"Calhoun were fighting even for Texas to become a slave state in 1844 election."
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"Up to this point, women had been left out of the conversation around slavery."
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Secession is the withdrawal of the eleven southern states. The states the secessioned is South Carolina.
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"Africans who escape the union line or who resided in territories occupied by the unions."
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Reconstruction is thing that was rebuilt because it was destroyed. The right that Lincoln want Black people to have right to vote.
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"Some people like Pennsylvania congressman even fought for redistribution of land award former slaves."
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"Andrew Johnson did everything that he could to keep black people as free slaves."
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"Andrew Johnson reserved lots of Lincoln promises, to allowing Confederate States to bar Blacks from voting."
