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1415
Prince Henry's Caper
Prince Henry's goal was to "capture the main Muslim trading depot [in] Morocco" (22). -
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). -
1450
"The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea"
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 Theory
In Chapter 2 of "Stamped," Reynolds explains that "English travel writer George Best determined [...] that Africans were, in fact, cursed" (30). -
1577
english writer George Best
determined it was not the climate that made blacks lower class it was that they were cursed -
Jamestown's First Slaves
A Latin American ship was seized by pirates and "twenty Angolans [on board were sold to] the governor of Virginia"(36). -
The San Juan Bautista
in August of 1619 The San Juan Bautista Hijack by two pirate boats. on that book the were 250,000 enslaved people the pirates took 60 Angolans and went to west virgin -
Richard Mather's Arrival
Richard Mather was a Puritan who came to America to practice a "more disciplined and rigid" (32) form of Christianity. -
"Voluntary" Slaves
According to Richard Baxter, some "Africans [...] wanted to be slaves so that they could be baptized" (39). -
FEB 12, 1663 Cotton Mather is born
cotton mather heard about bacon rebellion, he was already in college an 11 years olds obviously a nerd top of all that he was extremely religious -
Creation of White Privileges
In response to Nathaniel Bacon's uprising, local government decided to give "all Whites [...] absolute power to abuse any African person" (45). -
First Antiracist Writing in the Colonies
The Mennonites were against slavery because they "equat[ed]" (41) discrimination based on skin color to discrimination based on religion. -
The Witch Hunt Begins!
the revolution of 1688 which was called the glorious revolution, was pretty for him he made a new villain for a distraction, mather book outlines the symptoms of witchcraft. -
new America Enlightenment Era
In the mid-1700s, "new America entered what we now call the Enlightenment Era" (56). pg 56 -
First Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening swept through the colonies in the 1730s by a man named Jonathan Edwards pg 53 -
American Philosophical Society (APS) 1743
Benjamin Franklin created "a club for smart (White) people" (57) to discuss ideas and philosophy. -
MIss wheatley
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 -
Declaration of Independence
The United States Declaration of Independence is the pronouncement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776. -
The Three Fifths Compromise
Three-fifths compromise, compromise agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention (1787) that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives -
The Haitian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution was a successful insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolt began on 22 August 1791 -
(Possibly) North America's Biggest Uprising
of slaves to revolt in Virginia. Hundreds of captives were supposed to march Richmond where they would have to steal four tousand unguard Musk and arrest the governor -
Jefferson's Slave Trade Act
Jefferson's Slave Trade Act goals were to stop importing slaves into America. It really did anything about the slave trade -
The Missouri Compromise
In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free stat -
thomas jefferson death
He died of unknown causes on July 4, 1826, just hours before his friend, John Adams. Since he was 83 years old, it is assumed he died of natural causes. and joun adams pass away as well -
boston a booming city
boston was becoming one of amrcain most booming city but was running by the cotton being made in the south -
Garrison's First Abolition Speech
In 1831, Garrison published the first edition of The Liberator. His words, "I am in earnest I will not equivocate will not excuse I will not retreat a single inch AND I WILL BE HEARD," clarified the position of the new Abolitionists. -
Nat” Turner
Nat” Turner (1800-1831) was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people. -
aass abolitionist pamphlets
Mailing anti-slavery pamphlets to pro-slavery states erupted into a national controversy in 1835 when mobs broke into southern post offices. -
john calhon
john callhoan was a sentor from sc that was try to make texas a slave state pg107 -
frederick douglass
frederick douglass make and book in june in 1845 to show how was a life as a slave in amrcain -
uncle thomas cabin
uncle thomas cabin and book wrote by white girl talking about slaves and got poralur in the 1850s -
Stephen Arnold Douglas.
Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. He fought to end slaver but still races -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. and wanted end slavery but still thought black are not as good as whites -
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865, fought between northern states and the south states -
Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." -
Forty acres and a mule
Forty acres and a mule is part of Special Field Orders a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865 -
end of the Civil war
May 9, 1865 the civil war ended -
The Fifteenth Amendmen
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. -
Black Codes and Jim Crow
After the United States Civil War, state governments that had been part of the Confederacy tried to limit the voting rights of black citizens -
W.E.B du bois
“W.E.B. DuBois had graduated from the best Black school and the best White school” (138 -
Booker T Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington Between 1890 and 1915, Washington was the dominant leader in the African American community and of the contemporary black elite but he was also trying pleas whites telling black to be famer and labor jobs
