The colonists believed that indenturing the Africans was natural for them because the jobs that the slaves had to do during the first settlement were mostly field work which it did not require skills or experiences. This became essential to the colonists because the whites could concentrate more on the social businesses, such as trading and politics, while the African slaves would tend fields. .
African slaves were not recognized as humans but were treated as animals. The whites got their ideology of Africans from the Holy Bible as the most Europeans were Christian Catholics and they believed that the blacks were cursed by God, so the whites thought they were meant for hard labour. Therefore, the masters who have enslaved the blacks have taken advantage of them and forced them to work from dawn to dusk. The English settlers believed that the black represents death and evil, which it meant that blacks were no more than barbaric and cannibalistic beings (Slavery in America). Thus, the English did not give any sympathy or respect for them as the stereotypical idea of the Africans remained until slavery was abolished. In addition, the development of science in Europe, racism could be proved scientifically in terms of phrenology. For instance, Sir Thomas Herbert believed that shapes of the African's heads were similar to the apes which it classified that all Africans were inferior to white race intellectually, culturally and morally (Racist Ideas). For centuries, phrenology proved to the Europeans that Africans were unsuited to work unless supervised by the whites. In the end, it became reasonable to make the Africans work as slaves. .
There were numerous reasons why slavery was introduced to America; however, the introduction of slavery in 1619 when first Africans arrived, ultimately led slavery to America as an official institution by the pilgrims' desperate needs of profit and their greed.