Examples Of White Supremacy In Colonial America
Since the beginning of America’s colonial period, slavery has been practiced within America’s different lands. Many slaves from Africa would be imported into America to serve as laborers for the financial gain of white people. White supremacy is known as the belief that was held in the minds of many white Americans, as they believed that their race was the superior race to others. The upholding of the ideological belief of white supremacy had led to the building of a society that dehumanized and discriminated against imported enslaved Africans and eventually enslaved African Americans.
Southern states in America were most dependent on slavery. For southern states, the enslavement of black people was the center of white Americans’ society,