Discrimination Toward Blacks in Colonial America

In Colonial America the African Americans were not treated as men and women but as animals. The whites (Americans) thought that the blacks were an inferior race because they were ethnically different. The whites were very prejudiced against blacks and they also discriminated against blacks. The whites had many economic and political practices that caused major differences between the two races.
The ethnic backgrounds were totally different in the lives of black and whites because they came from two totally different places. The biggest difference between these two groups was skin color, Alexis de Tocqueville said, “Among the moderns the abstract and transient fact of slavery is fatally united with the physical and permanent fact of color.” Many of the white people were Christians but the blacks that came believed in more than one god. These ethnic differences finally led to slavery. There was already some slavery in America before the blacks arrived but it was not like...