In the book Racecraft, the authors say that racism came first, then race, and that's there's no race without racism. In other words, racists created the notion of race out of thin air in order to justify slavery and other atrocities.
In the book Racecraft, the authors say that racism came first, then race, and that's there's no race without racism. In other words, racists created the notion of race out of thin air in order to justify slavery and other atrocities.
Yep, this is true as far as I'm aware. Christians couldn't be kept as slaves indefinitely and more and more African slaves were being force-converted to Christianity, threatening the slave trade that huge amounts of money relied on. So racial distinctions were born in order to create a loophole where Africans could be Christians but it was still okay to keep them as lifelong slaves.
In the book Racecraft, the authors say that racism came first, then race, and that's there's no race without racism. In other words, racists created the notion of race out of thin air in order to justify slavery and other atrocities.
Yep, this is true as far as I'm aware. Christians couldn't be kept as slaves indefinitely and more and more African slaves were being force-converted to Christianity, threatening the slave trade that huge amounts of money relied on. So racial distinctions were born in order to create a loophole where Africans could be Christians but it was still okay to keep them as lifelong slaves.