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Discuss the nature of American views about race beginning with early American colonist views about American Indians and culminating with views about blacks and the institution of slavery

...... This vilification of the Native Indian is tied very closely to that of the vilification of black Americans. Although slavery had existed for much of human history, the kind of slavery started by Europeans in the fifteenth century was different, because it was the enslavement of one race by another and unlike earlier forms of slavery; the children of African American slaves would be slaves forever and could never achieve freedom through intermarriage with the owning class (Loewen). The impetus for African slavery was simple, increasingly whites viewed the enslavement of whites as illegitimate but the enslavement of Africans became acceptable, because as the French social philosopher Monteqsuieu states It is impossible for us to suppose these creatures to be men, because allowing them to be men, a suspicion would follow that we ourselves are not Christian (Loewen). In other words, this narrative of blacks being somehow lesser than was necessary to allow for the continuation of a practice that increasing numbers of people found morally reprehensible; prior to the introduction of black slavery blacks were seen as exotic but not necessarily inferior: see the inclusion of a black Othello in Shakespeares Othello. As Lowen brilliantly points out:
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