... culture. But until the eleventh century people were enslaved mainly because of war. During the crusade, Christians and Muslims used religion to justify slavery. In the fifteenth century, race became the primary basis for slavery. In ... . The English began to establish their own colonies along the eastern seaboard through trading companies chartered through King James. Some companies cultivated crops. Servants were brought to the colonies along with captive Africans to work ... Europeans needed to convince themselves that other races were somehow less than human in order to justify the b...

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