English racist ideas about Africans echoed Spanish and Portuguese enslavers rather than emerging locally

Evidence

But Smith was only recasting ideas he had heard in England between The Masque of Blackness, the founding of Virginia, and the founding of New England, ideas English intellectuals had probably learned from Spanish enslavers and Portuguese slave-traders. … These were the ideas about African people circulating throughout England and the English colonies as African people were being hauled into Britannia on slave ships. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 86

Categorization

• XREF: Directly instantiates Kendi’s core inversion: racist ideas manufactured and imported to justify an already-arriving slave trade. Also connects to the reading purpose of placing an argument within the three-way scheme — these are early segregationist justifications.