1. Racism and Economics of the Atlantic Slave Trade
... early Christian era to dehumanize, denigrate, and demote black Africans to a servile category. "Christianity and the Catholic Church played an ample role in the Atlantic Slave Trade because it promoted and preached racism. David Meager (2007) suggested that the Christians thought they had the right as God's chosen people to enslave ' ... manufacturing cloth. This signaled the beginning of capitalist production. According to Abdul Alkalimat (1990), it is in capitalist production that the basic cause of the slave trade is located. Alkalimat goes on to say that commerce and trade kept expand...
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