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Kant's and Hume's views of Africans shaped African American history in that these philosophers considered Africans as a "minor" race, below whites. And this questionable conception transcended to the American colonial times when white Europeans decided to explore and colonize the North American territory.
David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, said that black people were in nature, inferior people to whites. This horrible conception was decades later supported by German philosopher Immanuel Kant.
This distorted idea was brought to the American colonies and permeated in many individuals that started to settle on the East Coast, later was reinforces with the Slave Trade.