The English considered Africans barbaric, suitable to work as slaves. The social interaction between the two further allowed Europeans to assume that their culture was greater than all others. Such reasoning became a social cause of slavery. Long before the forced arrival of Africans, Europeans considered themselves superior to the Irish and Native Americans (Txbk). They thought that if some did not conform to English laws, customs and culture, they were uncivilized. Because Africans had fought, dressed, and lived differently, the colonists placed themselves on a higher pedestal, perhaps even feeling they had the right to enslave them because of cultural difference (Zinn). In the long run, the English considered black people to be “savages.” A slave trader, John Newton, described the Africans of Sierra Leone as “savage and barbarous people” (Zinn). Because Europeans assumed that other cultures were inferior, therefore barbaric; many considered Africans not even “men” (Zinn). This made slavery much easier to obtain. Ultimately, they were viewed as different from white servants and were therefore not treated equally, as white settlers did not believe slavery was immoral when profit and wealth blinded them. This social, yet negative, interaction between whites and Africans turned into racism and contributed to the eventual development of racism