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I'm going to disagree again, just because I can. The concept of racism is a modern one. Before such a word existed there were slaves, or peasants (otherwise called serfs), or a dislike of anyone not the same as others. Racism did not always exist - racism as a concept is a modern one. If you choose to see the past and distant past in modern terms, yes - the moderns view of it would be considered racism using the modern concept and word for it.The CONCEPT of racism, and racist attitudes, have existed forever. There just wasn't a word for it.
Transport you back 300 years and there's no such thing. You were a have, or a have not. Nothing else.