History of Racism and Antiracism

By kevinmei12152005
  • 1415

    Prince Henry's Capture

    Prince Henry's Capture
    Prince Henry's goal was to capture the "Muslim trading depot [in] morocco" (pg 22)
  • Period: 1415 to

    History of Racism and Antiracism

  • 1450

    "The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea"

    "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

    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

    Curse Theory
    In Chapter 2 of "Stamped," Reynolds explains that "English travel writer George Best determined [...] that Africans were, in fact, cursed" (30).

  • Jamestown's First Slaves

    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).

  • Richard Mather's Arrival

    Richard Mather's Arrival
    Richard Mather was a Puritan who came to America to practice a "more disciplined and rigid" (32) form of Christianity.

  • Cotton Mather is Born

    Cotton Mather is Born
    Cotton Mather was "an eleven-year-old Harvard student (the youngest of all time ), he was obviously a nerd, and on top of that, he was extremely religious."

  • "Voluntary" Slaves

    "Voluntary" Slaves
    According to Richard Baxter, some "Africans [...] wanted to be slaves so that they could be baptized" (39).

  • Creation of White Privileges

    Creation of White Privileges
    In response to Nathaniel Bacon's uprising, the local government decided to give "all Whites [...] absolute power to abuse any African person" (45).

  • First Anti racist writing in the colonies

    First Anti racist 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 Witch Hunt Begins!
    The witch hunt began. Over the next few months, as bewitching instances continued to happen, people continued to be accused of witchcraft.

  • First Great Awakening

    First Great Awakening
    The Frist Great Awakening, which swept through the colonies in the 1730s, spearheaded by a Connecticut man named Jonathan Edwards.

  • American Philosophical Society (APS)

    American Philosophical Society (APS)
    Benjamin Franklin created "a club for smart (White) people" (57) to discuss ideas and philosophy.

  • The (American) Enlightenment

    The (American) Enlightenment
    In the mid-1700s, "new America entered what we now call the Enlightenment Era" (56).

  • Phyllis Wheatley's Test

    Phyllis Wheatley's Test
    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

    Declaration of Independence
    In 1776, Thomas Jefferson who at the time was 33. He sat down to pen the Declaration of Independence. At the beginning of the declaration he wrote, "All men are created equal."

  • The Three Fifths Compromise

    The Three Fifths Compromise
    Every five slaves equaled three humans. So, just to do the math, that's like saying if there were fifteen slaves in the room, on paper, they counted as only nine people

  • The Haitian Revolution

    The Haitian Revolution
    In August 1791, close to half a million enslaved Africans in Haiti rose up against French rule. A revolt that the Africans in Haiti won. Haiti would become the Eastern Hemisphere"s symbol of freedom.(75)

  • (Possibly) North America's Biggest Uprising

    (Possibly) North America's Biggest Uprising
    The revolt was scheduled for Saturday, August 30, 1800. It could have been the largest slave revolt in the history of North America

  • Jefferson's Slave Trade Act

    Jefferson's Slave Trade Act
    In 1807, when, as president, he brought about a new Slave Trade Act. The goal Was to stop the import of people from Africa and the Caribbean into America and fine illegal slave traders.(82)

  • The Missouri Compromise

    The Missouri Compromise
    The Missouri Compromise of 1820. Congress agreed to go on and 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 state and free states. (86)

  • Thomas Jefferson's Death

    Thomas Jefferson's Death
    In his final lucid moment, Thomas Jefferson lay there dying in the comfort of slavery. Surrounded by comfort those slaves never felt. (88)

  • Garrison's First Abolition Speech

    Garrison's First Abolition Speech
    Garrison was a man. He was smart and forward-thinking and worked as an editor of a Quaker-run abolitionist newspaper. He spoke about it at the ACS conference.(95)

  • Thomas Jefferson's Death

    Thomas Jefferson's Death
    He was called upon by God to plan and execute a massive crusade, an uprising that would free slaves, and in so doing would leave slave master, their wives, and even their children slaughtered All in the name of liberation. (98)

  • AASS Abolitionist Pamphlets

    AASS Abolitionist Pamphlets
    Garrison began flooding the martet with new and improved abolitionist information.And the slaveholder had no clue what was coming: a million antislavery pamphlets distributed by the end of the year.(99)