Like Indian removal, the colonization of former slaves rested on the premise that America: a. wanted what was in the best intere
st of all the people. b. was fundamentally a white society. c. was not financially able to support all who lived there. d. was a land of diversity and equality. e. provided opportunity for new land to those who desired it.
When the Europeans arrived in America, the Indians were treated as savages and were brutally attacked and enslaved. In a second moment, indigenous labor was replaced by the importation of African slaves. This shows that the conception prevailing that America was a continent for whites. The Inids and later slaves were considered inferior beings and commodity of labor. Unfortunately this is part of our history and countries like Brazil and all of Spanish America.
