Answer:
b. was fundamentally a white society.
Explanation:
When the Europeans arrived in America, the Indians were treated as savages and were brutally attacked and enslaved. In a second moment, indigenous labor was replaced by the importation of African slaves. This shows that the conception prevailing that America was a continent for whites. The Inids and later slaves were considered inferior beings and commodity of labor. Unfortunately this is part of our history and countries like Brazil and all of Spanish America.
