Besides teaching the slave to despise his own history and culture, the master strove to inculcate his own value system into the African's outlook.

The white man's belief in the African's inferiority paralleled African self hate.
Slavery has always been an evil institution, and being a slave has always been undesirable.

However, the slave in America was systematically exploited for the accumulation of wealth.

Being a slave in a democracy, he was put outside of the bounds of society.

Finally, because his slavery was racially defined, his plight was incurable.