Racism (40-80)

Summary: The Europeans of the early and medieval times figured out that they could not completely get rid of other religions that did not refer to their God. Therefore, racism became the new policy to comply with. However, the highest religious authorities prohibited such form of ethnic predestination. The different beliefs, would create a distance between the slave traders and those who killed Jews. Unlike the Jews being blamed for everything that went wrong, the blacks were not considered cursed.

There was more controversy placed on Christian belief, as to how they believed that Adam and Eve were the progenitors of all humans. In the sixteenth century Giordano Bruno and Christopher Marlowe brought forth the belief that mankind had three ancestors, and that Adam was the forefather of the Jews only. This theory brought a racist fashion that all humans are not that single blood they believed to be. The modern concept of races has been classified by physical characteristics, primarily skin color. In western European the recognition of superior horses and dogs foreshadowed the ranking of human being with different characteristics.

By 1611, the Spanish dictionary included the word "raza" which would mean a caste or quality of authentic horses. This would refer to an amalgamation of Jewish or Moorish ancestors. It also believed around this time, that blood would have magical properties. That the blood of the Christians and that of the Jewish was clearly different. Whenever that word race was used, it mean that such races has an unchangeable characteristic.

Quote: "If they had asked men of science. they would have learned that the Negro in accordance with his formation, is not susceptible under equal conditions of education being raised to the same level of intelligence as the European" (Fredrickson 67).

Reaction: The age of democratic revolution began in the United States, with it they brought the doctrine of "all men are created equal". However, this reason would be hard to refer to the blacks and the Jewish, because they were considered less than human. That was until, the United States abolished slavery, and after the Constitution decided to reside with the Jews.