Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
The plantation owners wanted a source of cheap labor in order to make a larger profit.
The slave owners hated them. They treated them like cattle, basically. The blacks had no rights, and it was shameful.
Plantation owners supported and propagated racism to justify owning people as slaves.
Basic racism.
A slave owner can have as many slaves as they can afford to buy and support.
Racism and greed were two ways that slave owners justified enslaving Africans. They also thought that Africans were not very smart.
Slavery led to racism in the Americas because the slaves began to be seen as nothing but slaves, their lack of experience in the real world rendered them very naive, and their culture was much different from the White's. That, combined with the ignorance of the slave owners which was compounded with things like Jim Crowe and the general atmosphere that the slaves were the inferior servants led to racism.
the white men benifitted, slave owners
Masters or just plain slave owners
North Slave owners did pay their slaves, but south slave owners didn't. See the following link.
The slave owners bought their slaves at auctions.
Because the slave owners didn't have to pay for the free labour the slave were giving them.
of their desire to become slave owners.