Racism cannot be confined to a specific time period. It is believed to have started way before the slave trade which occurred during the early 1500s to late 1800s. Therefore, they have no correlation with each other. Many people believe that the existence of slavery is due to racism. However, if slavery was due to racism African people wouldn’t make their own people slave and sell them to other people. African people were selling their own people to the colonies to make profits. The main purpose of slavery was to increase their productivity and make more profit.
Most importantly, the main purpose of slavery was to make more produced with cheaper labor. A quote that supports this idea is, “It is clearly shown that the production of cotton depends,