The racial ideology among early European settlers to the Americas was clear from the moment Europeans stepped onto its shores. White Europeans came to conquer the Americas and retrieve its riches. Finding gold for Spain was Columbus’s main objective, even the Vikings came to North America just for the timber. Europeans did not have regard for the native people of the Americas and exploited them to their own advantage. Spanish explorers called conquistadors, or conquerors, tells the story of the racial ideology of the Europeans in the Americas. Through the centuries, this ideology became the dogma of the white peoples of European descent in the Americas. This is evident in America’s tradition of enslavement of people of color for personal
