Why Did Europeans Treat African Americans

The Europeans did not treat the Africans fairly. First, in the 1400s the Portuguese discovered Africa. They conquered cities on the coast. They started to capture African people and sell them as slaves. Then in the 1800s Great Britain outlawed the capture of slaves and later owning slaves. Even though they ended slavery African people were not treated fairly. Europeans started to explore and conquer more parts of Africa. This time they took ivory and other resources so that they could become rich. Then they decided that Africans needed to be more like them so they took over and forced their ways on the native Africans. Then a big meeting was held because too many European countries were fighting over Africa. The meeting settled who owned which