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Originally Posted by DSTRen13
It seems like this may be a semantics issue on what we're calling "race"? Europeans certainly saw the African as other from the beginnings of the slave trade, but that view's development into modern ideas of race was a process that took a few centuries.
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Exactly. "Race" is more of a North American construct.
But the concept of "cultural and ethnic differentialism" increased throughout the institution of slavery.