The Colonial Period

In this post, i will show how racism was a relevant theme in the colonial time period. This article identifies the growth of slavery within the colonies in the New World. It talks about how Virginia was the first British colony to establish slavery legally. The first African Americans brought over to the New World weren't slaves- but indentured servants. The article talks about how slavery quickly replaced indentured servitude, and slavery boomed within the colonies. Most colonies had slaves, and these slaves were, as you may know, given very little to no rights. The number of slaves by the turn of the eighteenth century numbered in the tens of thousands within the colonies. Slavery, luckily, is not a problem we face in modern America.  In the colonies, slaves were treated extremely poorly and they were given no rights because of their skin color. Since then, racism has become less of a problem. I, however, believe that stereotyping and racial profiling are both still relevant problems in modern day society.