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Zurara was the first racist to ever walk the earth. his first writing stating that black people are not equal to the white English people. Its spread like wildfire throughout England creating the first racist idea about his own people.

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John Locke was an English professor who believed that the most unblemished, purest, perfect minds belong to white people and thats basically saying black people had dirty not clean minds.

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he was a governor for the colonial state of Virginia. When he turned eighteen he attended Oxford university and when he arrived at America he planted all kind of crops, most notably tobacco. He died in 1677

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born a slave, Douglass knew how to write and was eventually "Discovered" by William Garrison. they wrote together and Garrison was surprised by how well Douglass could write and speak, They spoke about racism and believed that it should be abolished. He was an American abolitionist and died in 1895.

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He was the one of the first white men to argue against racism and believed that black people were capable of everything a white man could do.

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Benjamin franklien started a club called  the American Philosophical society in 1743 in Philadelphia to "promote usual knowledge." it was a club for basically smart white people, they used as light a metaphor for smart.  it was a group of thinkers, philosophers, and rasits.

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Thomas Jefferson grew up with black people in his home town of Virginia. He spoke publicly abut racism and him believing that all men are created equal. however, behind the scenes he said very racist terms and had own thousands of slaves before he died.

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Phillis Wheatly was a black woman. She was a poet. White people couldn't believe how a person of a different race could be that intelligent. She was never an active working slave, when she was a young girl she was a captive and brought over from a ship in Senegambia and purchased by the Wheatly family who wanted a daughtar to "replace" the one they lost.

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The 3/5'ths compromise was a battle between the north and the south. The south had many slave owners and they wanted all there slaves to pay taxes towards the state so that they could have more money, however if each slave has to pay taxes than they are citizens of that state and therefore can vote. So the compromise was for each slave to count as three-fifths of a person.

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Abraham Lincoln was one of the presidents of the United States and he was a believer in slavery being abolished. during his presidency he argued slavery heavily and once the war between the northern states and the western states broke out, he was leading the northern side in their case of zero slavery. eventually the north won the war and slavery was abolished, but Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a white man because of Lincoln's beliefs.

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He was one of the best war generals during the civil war. He fought for slavery in the south and won many battles against the north. His strategy was to wait until the enemies make the mistakes and because of that he was the reason why the south stood a chance against the north, because the north had way more numbers.

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he was a very very intelligent man who wrote several books about slavery. one of his most well known books is "Black Reconstruction in America." he was an African American who studied at Harvard, and Fisk two of the top black school in America at the time. He traveled to Ghana and died at the age of 95.

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probably one of the most well known characters in this book is Martin Luther. He was extraordinarily intelligent and graduated at Boston university with a system theology degree. His famous peaceful protests were famous and his speech "I have a Dream" echoed throughout all of America. While his protests were successful and were going somewhere, He was assassinated in 1968 due to not everyone agreeing with his ideologies.

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George Zimmerman was a man who shot; and killed a 17 year old black boy. He was walking home from 7/11 and George shot him in a result of rasaist thought and behavior and he thankfully went to jail.

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Barack Obama was the first black president America had ever seen, he rose to fame by calling out the Bill Cosby show for calling out black people. The day he won anti-rasits around the world were so happy they would hug strangers on the streets