Actually no. And you proved that yourself later in this post when you stated that the white folk working in the fields with the black folk weren't called slaves but were instead "indentured servants". So the Africans had nothing to do with it. The choice to make slavery a skin color thing was 100% on white Europeans.
And the reason for it was this:
Bacon's Rebellion - Wikipedia
"The alliance between
European indentured servants and
Africans (a mix of indentured, enslaved, and
Free Negroes) disturbed the colonial upper class. They responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery in an attempt to divide the two races from subsequent united uprisings with the passage of the
Virginia Slave Codes of 1705."
So to keep poor whites and poor blacks from seeing they had shared interests against the wealthy elite, those in power created a system of racial hierarchy where they made whiteness superior to blackness. And as Lyndon B. Johnson famously said:
A quote by Lyndon B. Johnson
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
And that's why we are where we are today in America. The elite exploit all of us but are only able to because they've separated us into different castes and unfortunately one of the things humans like is the feeling of being superior to others.
