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