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Did he pay off the debt or were they worthless?
Yes, it is true, chattel slavery was an awful institution but whites were sold just as well. Children whose parents could not afford to feed them were sold into apprenticeships. Women were sold into marriage which they may or may not have wanted. If black people did not want to be slaves, they should have fought their own black countrymen that did the selling.
Not so.