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A single person did not make race. It was created a very long time ago at about the 17th centaury. It became important in the newborn Americas, with Indians and African slaves. There race gained unfair stereotypes which lead to the huge problems of today. Immanuel Kant gave race its first definition in 1775 in his essay, Of the Different Races of Man. [|This is his essay] in google books. It is on page 38. In the 18th centaury Europeans wanted to classify everything, and made Taxonomy, with the idea that humans were different from each other. Naturally they put themselves on the top.

In America slaves and American Indians were treated unfair and race was made a very important thing. Each race was given stereotypes. People assumed these were true and thought that every African was the same.

Slavery used to be a temporary thing. You would become a slave by not paying debt, or war prisoners. Every few years they would let people free. Race was not a idea that just popped into someones head. It was developed over years of unfair stereotypes, such as stupitity, and the spreading of empires. By the spreading of empires came the question of what to do with the survivors. So they put them to work until it was time to let them free. There were no set laws on how long to keep them but nobody ever kept them for very long. It started becoming permanent before the colonization of America. It started becoming perminent in small numbers with the Greeks and Roman, but those were treated much better and some were educated. Many of the educated slaves were tutors for the children of the masters. It grew into larger numbers when the British and French took land in Africa as part of their Empire. It then became massive in the start of America. Race came into slavery mostly in the Americas. There they met people who didn't have the same technology as them. They took the native's land, and they fought back, so they enslaved them. They died of Europeans diseases and were seen as weak, although it was because they had no immunity to these new diseases. They also used Irish as slaves, starting in 1625. They were better workers than the natives which made them think that they were different in a bigger way. Then they enslaved Blacks. The First blacks were first shipped to England, were thye were converted to Christianity and were taught ettiquete. Then they were shipped to America. They made the Irish look like savages so blacks were far more superior to Irish in the slaver's eyes and costed much more. Then slavers started sending Africans straight from Africa. The could not speak English and did not have the same religon. Opinion of them went down and thats when they started to be treated sub-human.

Racism could of originated from ancient Egypt. This picture of an ancient drawing on a temple wall shows that this could be the possibility. Another possibility is that they saw that people had different skin colors, but did not see any other differences. They did not think that they were different from each other.

Later in the year I want to study how war effects racism and race. AnBibRushin