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.
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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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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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