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Wrote a biography of Prince Henry of Portugal that made Prince Henry look powerful and awesome.  Justified enslaving Africans because they were Black and their souls needed saving.  "Zurara was the first person to write about and defend Black human ownership, and this single document began the recorded history of anti-Black racist ideas."

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In 1492 Christopher Columbus came to what would soon be known as America. The land at the time belonged to Indigenous people. He saw the indigenous people as unequal and unintelligent. He believed because they weren't as powerful as him and his followers it would be easy to subject them to do whatever he wanted. He took some of them back as slaves and made them do hard work.

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1688 petitioned against slavery
Was the first push against slavery in the U.S.
Lived in Pennsylvania
Dutch decedents

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William Garrison was an abolition that originally believed in gradual abolition, but then shifted to immediate abolition. He created the American Anti Slavery Association which used mass printing to spread abolitionist ideas.