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1415
Prince Henry's Caper
Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslim trading depot [in] Morocco" (22). -
Period: 1415 to
History of Racism and Antiracism
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1450
The World's First Racist
According to Kendi and Reynolds, "Zurara was the first person to write about and defend Black human ownership" (25). -
1526
First Known African Racist
Johannes Leo, also known Leo Africanus, "echoed Zurara's sentiments of Africans, his own people [and called them...] hypersexual savages" (26-7). -
1577
Curse Therory
In Chapter 2 of "Stamped," Reynolds explains that "English travel writer George Best determined [...] that Africans were, in fact, cursed" (30). -
James Town's First Slave
A Latin American ship was seized by pirates and "twenty Angolans [on board were sold to] the governor of Virginia"(36). -
Richard Mather's Arrival
Richard Mather was a Puritan who came to America to practice "more disciplined and rigid" form of Christianity. (32) -
"Voluntary" Slaves
Richard Baxter believed that, "...there were “voluntary slaves,” as in Africans who wanted to be slaves so that they could be baptized.” -
White Privilege
To create a wedge bewtween poor White people and poor Black people, “Only the White rebels were pardoned”, and “...Whites now wielded absolute power to abuse any African person.” -
First Antiracist Writing in the Colonies
The Germantown Petition Against Slavery,“ was the first piece of writing that was antiracist ” -
The Witch Hunt Begins!
Cotton Mather created the book that showed the outlines of a witch ,so when “Parris’s nine-year-old daughter suffered convulsions and chokes, he believed she’d been possessed or cursed” -
First Great Awakening
Enslavers believed that they were purifying the souls of their slaves, “,spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards. Edwards” -
American Philosophical Society (APS)
Benjamin Franklin created "a club for smart (White) people" to discuss ideas and philosophy. -
The (American) Enlightenment
In the mid-1700's, "new America entered what we now call the Enlightenment Era". -
Phyllis Wheatley's Test
Wheatley "proved herself [as intelligent and] human",by passing a test given by some of the smartest men in the country at the time. -
Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson and the rest of the Second Continental Congress and “sat down to pen the Declaration of Independence.” -
The Haitian Revolution
In August, “close to half a million enslaved Africans in Haiti rose up against French rule”, and won -
The Three Fifths Compromise
Because of the North and South power struggle they came to a middle ground ,of “Every five slaves equaled three humans.” -
(Possibly) North America's Biggest Uprising
A revolt was scheduled but because of, “two cynical slaves—snitches—begging for their master’s favor," it was blown. -
Jefferson's Slave Trade Act
During Jefferson's presidency the, “...[a] new Slave Trade Act. The goal was to stop the import of people from Africa and the Caribbean into America,” -
The Missouri Compromise
Whether or not Missouri was a slave state or a free state so, the compromise was to “admit Missouri as a slave state, but they’d also admit Maine as a free state to make sure there was still an equal amount of slave states and free states," -
Thomas Jefferson's Death
“July 2, 1826, Jefferson seemed to be fighting to stay alive.”, was alive till the dawn of July 4th. -
Garrison's First Abolition Speech
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Nat Turner's Rebellion
Just like the Enligment Era Nat Turner believed that liberation of Black people came from, “slave masters, their wives, and even their children slaughtered.” -
AASS Abolitionist Pamphlets
Founded by Lloyd Garrison, “[began]mass printing and an efficient postal service to overwhelm the nation with twenty to fifty thousand pamphlets a week." -
Samuel Morton's Theories
Scientist Samuel Morton, examine human skulls came to the conclusion that, “that White people had bigger skulls and therefore greater intellectual capacity,” -
Frederick Douglass' Narrative Published
Published, “The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. It outlined Douglass’s life and gave a firsthand account of the horrors of slavery.” -
Uncle Tom's Cabin
After reading the viewpoint of a black women who was a slave, a white women made a book about how, “We all must be slaves… to God. And since docile Black people made the best slaves (to man), they made the best Christians. ” -
Start of Civil War
The South began a secession, which mean to withdraw. “There were now two governments, like rival gangs." Then they fought. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
Abraham Linclon passed a bill hat said, “All persons held as slaves within any state [under rebel control] shall then, thenceforward, and forever, be free.” -
40 Acres and a Mule
Pennsylvania congressman Thaddeus Stevens “...fought for the redistribution of land to award former slaves forty acres to work for themselves." -
End of Civil War
At the end of the war Abraham Lincoln plan of reconstruction was, “...that Blacks (the intelligent ones) should have the right to vote.” -
The Fifteenth Amendment
The Fifth-teen Amendment stated, “...no one could be prohibited from voting due to “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” -
Black Codes and Jim Crow
Black codes were used to stop Black people from living freely, and Jim crow laws ,“which were laws that legalized racial segregation.”
