As a result, the US Supreme Court and the Chief Judge ruled in favor of the infamous Dred Scott Case that as far as they were concerned, blacks were only 3/5's human and therefore had no rights that the white man was bound to respect.
During the slave trade beginning in the 15th century, African people were forcefully torn from the continent of Africa and force to lose their culture, in turn to accept what ever the whites offered, for instance the names Negro, coon, jigaboo, pickaninny, nigger, and nigga. The Europeans or (whites) who controlled the slave trade realized that he had to strip the Africans or (black people) of all culture such as original names, languages, and religion. Names like Nubian, Kamite, Axumite, Ashanti, Mandinka and Kushite all carried proud legacies of civilization that Europeans knew they had to erase it all from the African individuals mind. In order to accomplish that, they outlawed anything and everything belonging to or identified with African culture and forced them to accept their names, languages, religions, and along with that, the terms "nergo," "nigger," and "nigga.".
When Africans refused to accept the names "negro" and "nigga," and refused to accept any name other than their own or to practice any other religion, they were tortured, mutilated and murdered in the worst imaginable ways. This inhumane treatment instilled fear in the minds of the other Africans, thereby enforcing on them the shackles of mental as well as physical slavery. When the European used the word "nigga" towards blacks, it was used as a mental whip to force blacks into the image they had created blacks: mentally dead and equal only to the animals of the plantation. The word "nigga" was one of the most damaging tools used by the European to force mental slavery on black people. It not only promoted the idea among Europeans that blacks should be held in contempt, but it caused blacks to adopt that same attitude.