[wongarsu]

> because by then it was well established that white people shouldn't enslave, or attach to land, other white people

That's not how Europe works. Virtually everyone around here is "white". That doesn't prevent racism, it's just racism against Gypsies, or Albanians, or Itelmens, or Jews, or now (often white) muslims.

And of course in Europe we had a big thing for using class differences instead of using race differences as our justification for such things as serfdom.