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We are led to believe that racism was the impetus for slavery or that "race" came first and enslavement came after. Historically, Africans were well respected and had agency (race was not a thing). Race was not a category until Atlantic Slave trade created it as a way of justification. Racism was not the guiding principle in slavery, rather economic reasons were, and slavery began as multi-ethnic and multi-religious.

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