Most scholars agree that:

A) Anti-black prejudice was an important cause of American slavery

B) Anti-black prejudice was basically a result of American slavery

C) Intense anti-black prejudice and racism existed in England before the start of the slave trade

D) Anti-black prejudice actually declined as slavery began to take shape in colonial times

E) Anti-black prejudice was based on the mutual ethnocentrism between colonialists and Africans

The correct answer is letter B: Anti-black prejudice was basically a result of American slavery.

Explanation:

Most scholars agree that Anti-black prejudice was basically a result of American slavery. For Alvin Thompson, in his book Race and Colour Prejudices and the Origin of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the slave trade for example, as in part derived from early race and color prejudices.

B) Anti-black prejudice was basically a result of American slavery

Explanation:

Anti-black prejudice in the USA is the result of years of slavery in that country. This is because, slavery placed blacks as people of low quality and who were not worthy of the best things, nor worthy of their own lives and were doomed to work excessively for the superior population, the whites.

When slavery was abolished, the feeling of superiority in many white citizens was maintained and perpetuated through the generations, making blacks still seen as inferior, unworthy, unclean and immoral, which created the racism present in society today.