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Gomes Eanes de Zurara

This person was a commander in Prince Henry's Military Order of Christ. Reynolds and Kendi name this person as the World's First Racist for the person's racist writings.

John Cotton and Richard Mather

These ministers were Puritans who were among the first European settlers of what would later become the United States. Reynolds and Kendi depict these people as espousing racist ideas and linking them to religion and God's will.

Phyllis Wheatley

This person was originally from Senegambia and is regarded as a brilliant poet. At the time, in the late 1700s, many White people were shocked that a Black person could be so intelligent and talented.

Thomas Jefferson

This person was one of America's "founding fathers," and this person is also a former U.S. President. This person held many contradictory ideas about Black people and slavery. This person wrote that slavery was a...

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