Not only did white America become convinced of white superiority
and black inferiority, but it strove to impose these racial
beliefs on the Africans themselves. Slave masters gave a great
deal of attention to the education and training of the ideal
slave, In general, there were five steps in molding the character
of such a slave: strict discipline, a sense of his own
inferiority, belief in the master's superior power, acceptance
of the master's standards, and, finally, a deep sense of his own
helplessness and dependence. At every point this education was
built on the belief in white superiority and black inferiority.
Besides teaching the slave to despise his own history and
culture, the master strove to inculcate his own value system
into the African's outlook. The white man's belief in the African's
inferiority paralleled African self hate.
Slavery has always been an evil institution, and being a slave
has always been undesirable. However, the slave in America was
systematically exploited for the accumulation of wealth. Being a
slave in a democracy, he was put outside of the bounds of
society.
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