In what ways did European colonists discriminate against Africans

They didn't invite them to the Berlin conference and they took over their land

During the second half of the 17th century, a terrible transformation, the enslavement of people solely on the basis of race, occurred in the lives of African Americans living in North America. These newcomers still numbered only a few thousand, but the bitter reversals they experienced-first subtle, then drastic-would shape the lives of all those who followed them, generation after generation.