Europeans portrayed Africans as devilish creatures, who were nothing more than beast who lived to work for the their masters, “’Travel reports described Africans as people of beastly living, without a God, law, religion. Their color allegedly made them “devils incarnate”(50). The salves were treated like animals, being chained and sold off to fulfill their obligations in the deal of the owners, “Though they had bee ‘sold,’ the first Africans in Virginia probably were not slaves, personas reduced to property and required to work without wages for life”(52). One of the key descriptions they use when describing the salves is: ‘”In the English mind, the color black was frightened with an array of negative images: ‘deeply stained with dirt,’ ‘foul,’ ‘dark or deadly’ in purpose, ‘malignant,’ ‘sinister,’ ‘wicked’”(50).
