FALSE, the concept of race was invented by American scientists in order to justify owning slaves and treating people of other races poorly.
History began with the invention of race by European naturalists and anthropologists and was marked by the publication in 1735 of the book Systemanaturaae, in which the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus proposed to divide mankind into four distinct races. .
The 18th-century Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus was one of the first scientists to classify and classify people. He considered mankind to be a species of the animal kingdom and divided the species into four types: European, American, Asian and African.
