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Prince Henry was the son of king John of Portugal.He convinced king john to capture the man Muslim trading depot from the northeastern tip of Morocco.
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Prince Henry nor king John of Portugal was given the title World's First Racist because the truth is capturing people wasn't an unusual thing back then. Just a fact of life.
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Either way, Zurara's documentation of the racist idea that africans needed slavery in order to be fed and taught Jesus and that it was all ordained by god
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The San Juan Bautista was hijacked by two pirates ships. The Bautista was carrying 350 Angolans because Latin american slaveholders had already figured out their own slave trading system and had enslaved 250,000 people.
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They landed in america after treacherous trips especially Richard Mather, whose ship sailed into a storm in 1635 and almost collided was a massive rock in the ocean. Mather of course saw his survival of this journey to america as a miracle and became devoted to God.
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About Cotton and Mather. They were Puritans About Puritans. They were English Protestants who believed the reformation of the church of England was basically watering down Christianity and they sought to regulate it to keep it more disciplined and rigid.
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By the time Cotton Mather heard about Bacon's Rebellion, he was already in college. An eleven year old Harvard student, he was obviously a nerd, and on top of all that, he was extremely religious.
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There was a piece in 1664 by the British minister Richard Baxter called A Christian Directory.He believed slavery was helpful for African people.
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A man named Metacomet, a Native American war leader was killed which basically ended the battle in 1676.Puritans cut up his body as if it were a hog's and paraded his remains around Plymouth.
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They circulated an antislavery petition on April 18 1688 denouncing oppression due to skin color by equating it with oppression due to religion.
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Enslavers became more open to these ideas over time right up until the First Great Awakening which swept through colonies in the 1730s, spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards.
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Benjamin Franklin started a club called the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia. It was modeled after the Royal Society In England and served as, basically a club for smart (white) people
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So in 1772 John Wheatley, Phillis's adoptive father, got eighteen of the smartest men in america together in boston so that they could test her. See if a black person could really be intelligent and liberate as Phillis.
