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◉ Haitian Revolt.
Answer: - 1791-1804
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◉ Henry Moss.
Answer: - A slave in Virginia
- marketed himself as "a great curiosity" in Philadelphia.
- Earned enough money to buy his freedom.
- The most famous black man of the day when white spots appeared
on his body in 1792.
- It turned him visibly white within 3 years.
◉ Notes on the State of Virginia.
Answer: - Thomas Jefferson wrote this in 1784.
- Stated that black people were incapable of mental improvement
and that they might even have a separate ancestry.
- Sparked considerable backlash from antislavery and black
communities.
, - The celebrated black surveyor Benjamin Banneker, for example,
immediately wrote to Jefferson and demanded he "eradicate that
train of absurd and false ideas" and instead embrace the belief that
we are "all of one flesh" and with "all the same sensations and
endowed...with the same faculties.
◉ Thomas Jefferson.
Answer: - Beat John Adams in election.
- Wrote "Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)"
- Believed in poly-genesis (a theory that black people were incapable
of mental improvement and that they might even have a separate
ancestry.)
- A black surveyor, Benjamin Banneker, demanded that he "eradicate
that rain of absurd and false ideas."
- He worked to reduce taxes and cut the government's budget
believing that this would cause the economy to expand and prosper.
◉ Republican Motherhood.
Answer: - Describes the early American belief that women were
essential in nurturing the principles of liberty in the citizenry.
- Women would pass along important values of independence and
virtue to their children, ensuring that each generation cherished the
same values of the
- American Revolution. Because of these ideas, women's actions
became politicized.