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Prince Henry was the son of King John of Portugal. He convinced King John to capture the main Muslim trading depot from the northeastern tip of Morocco. (22)
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Gomes Eanes de Zurara wrote a book named " The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. He was the first person to write about and defend black human ownership making him the world's first racist. (25)
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Johannes Leo known as Leo the African echoed Zurara's sentiments of Africans, he said they were hypersexual savages, making him the first known African racist.(27)
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George Best determined conveniently for all parties interested in owning slaves that it not that climate made darker people inferior, but it was that Africans were cursed. (30)
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William Perkins argued that slave was just a part of a loving family ordered in a way. (31)
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John Cotton and Richard Matter were Puritan, English protestants who believed the reformation of the Church of England was watering down Christianity.
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Richard Baxter believed slavery was helpful for African people. (39)
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The Germantown Petition Against Slavery was the first piece of writing that was antiracist among European settlers in colonial America. (41)
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The Mennonites didn't want to leave behind one place of oppression to build another in America, so they circulated an antislavery petition. (41)
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Parris's daughter suffered convulsions and chokes. (50)
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On his birthday he called his church's pastor into the room for prayer (53)
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First Great Awakening which swept through colonies, spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards. (53)
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After Cotton Matter's death, his followers continued his legacy, the new America entered the Enlightenment era. (56)
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Benjamin Franklin started the club American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. (57)
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John got eighteen of the smartest men in America together in Boston so they could test her. (60)
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Congress agreed to go on and admit Missouri as a slave state. (86)
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In spring, his health had deteriorated to the point he couldn't leave home. (88)
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On July 2, Jefferson seemed to be fighting to stay alive. (89)
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Both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died on July 4,1826. (94)
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ACS asked William to give their Fourth of July address.(95)
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At the meeting of AASS, members decided to rely on the new technology of mass printing.(99)
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The report said that Blacks were insane and enslaved Blacks were the same. (101)
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Calhoun was fighting even for Texas to become a slave state in the elections. (102)
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was published. (103)
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The slave act had been replaced and a bill passed that declared all Confederate-owned Africans who escaped to Union lines or who resided in territories occupied by the Union to be " forever free" (115)
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Four hundred thousand black people had escaped their plantations and found Union lines. (116)
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The Civil War finally ended. (117)
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He reversed a lot of Lincoln's promises, allowing Confederate states to bar Blacks from voting. (119)
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He even fought for the redistribution of land to award former slaves forty acres to work for themselves. (120)
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On February 3, 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was made official. (121)
