tinydancer
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Yes the indentured servants of America were often treated badly, cheated, worked to death, too.
Yes, most of those (all that I know of actually) were WHITE people.
So what?
The slaves were not brought here by choice. The indentured servants were. They got passage in exchange for labor. Slavery was permanent. Indentured servants were for a pre-agreed upon term. In what way is that the same?
It's funny how liberals call themselves the "pro-choice" party. But the only choice they recognize is the right to chose an abortion. The idea of economic choice is completely incomprehensible to you.
Slavery was permanent for many. But for some, not many, it wasn't permanent. Let's get that part of history right from the get go. And Freed Blacks owned slaves as well.
And I really find it revolting when someone tries to argue that "there weren't "as many" Freed Black slave owners".
One slave owner and one slave is one too many. No matter what the color of the owner is. Or what the color of the slave is.
Now to indentured servants. White Cargo that I've going order (I'm going by excerpts and reviews here) clearly documented that 8 to 16 year old street children were shipped to become "servants".
I really don't see how little street beggars in London were running to ports to be shipped to the new world.
This vividly written book tells the tale from both sides of the Atlantic. Its condemnation is aimed at both American planters and the English elite, who were blinded by greed, arrogance and a desire to get rid of their societys sweepings.
Horribly, one of the first groups sent to America was made up of street children, ages 8 to 16, who arrived in 1619.
This slave trade, which the authors say was often dressed up in bright humanitarian clothes for the public, later extended to beggars,
Gypsies, prostitutes, dissidents, convicts and anyone else who displeased the upper classes. Founders like George Washington do not fare particularly well, but Sir John Popham and Oliver Cromwell come off worse. Benjamin Franklin is one of the few good guys.
In another review I read that this shipment of children in particular numbered 300 and by 1624 out of the 300 children only 12 were still recorded as being alive.
And how on earth is this better for an "indentured servant"?
Once in the New World, they were effectively items of property to be treated as their masters saw fit.
Brutal corporal punishment was ubiquitous: every Virginia settlement had its own whipping post. One man was publicly scourged for four days with his ears nailed to the post. He had been flirting with a servant girl.
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