AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: John Peter Zenger, Northwest Ordinance, Salutary Neglect
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Fort mose, florida black town near saint augustine built by the spanish. Stono rebellion hutchinson store was looted of its guns. They sounded plantations and burned them to the ground. Grown to 100 by beating drums while marching. Black alice born into slaver in 1686 in philadelphia. She was one of the last philadelphians to remember william penn. Unable to read but listened to other read the bible to her. Her thoughts on the bible were well known. Tells us that slavery in the north did not have much farm work, but instead were domestic servant or worked for wages. Slaves in the north had more contact with whites. Phillis came from her slave traders named after her ship. The family who purchased her last name was wheatley. She mostly wrote elegies and poems to political people. First african american poet, and first woman to comment on politics. Bacon"s rebellion uprising lead by nathaniel bacon.
