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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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"Increase and Maria have a son. February 12, 1663. They name him after both families." Richard married his companion then he diced to name his daughter after both family's
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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 the face of criminality." Cotton Mather decide to write a book about witch craft to distract the enemies but the enemies believed it.
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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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The Declaration of independence was signed by Thomas Jefferson and it states that all men is equal.
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Since the population was growing bigger and bigger the sate decide that there shall be two state senators per state to represent the. Since the north have less slave so they made that every 5 slaves is 3 human for the south.
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The Haitian slaves had enough of the French rules they decide to do something that the French have no seen before. Their resolved won and the Hattians became the symbol of freedom. Many states after the resolved started to aware their slaves.
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Pg. 80
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Pg. 82-3
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Pg. 86-7