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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 1915808" data-attributes="member: 20740">Actually bigotry came after slavery.  There were white slaves who worked alongside their black counterparts for many years.  When slave revolts became too common, the laws were changed to give the white slaves more rights and possible freedom.  They were also segregated from the black slaves to cut down on the alarming (to the slave owners) number of mulatto children being born among the slaves.  Racism against blacks had nothing to with slavery.  Blacks were the primary slaves because they were bought from black slave owners in Africa.On the other hand, the American slave owners were the ones to manufacture the modern racism felt against blacks in America.  It was simply a convenient measure to keep slaves in line and not band together in large numbers.Native Americans, by the way, were found to be too unruly as slaves and so were rarely used.  Genocide was a more attractive alternative to slavery when it came to them.</blockquote>