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Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Gomes Eanes de Zurara Character Analysis

Gomes Eanes de Zurara was the 15th-century Portuguese writer who chronicled Prince Henry the Navigator’s conquests in Africa. Kendi considers Zurara “the world’s first racist” because he was the first person to come up with a racial justification for slavery: he argued that Africans were “savages,” so Henry was Christianizing and civilizing them through slavery.

Gomes Eanes de Zurara Quotes in Stamped

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Chapter 1 Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Jason Reynolds (speaker), Gomes Eanes de Zurara
Page Number: Chapter 1: The Story of the World’s First Racist 7
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Gomes Eanes de Zurara Quotes in Stamped

The Stamped quotes below are all either spoken by Gomes Eanes de Zurara or refer to Gomes Eanes de Zurara. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 1 Quotes

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.

Related Characters: Jason Reynolds (speaker), Gomes Eanes de Zurara
Page Number: Chapter 1: The Story of the World’s First Racist 7
Explanation and Analysis: