Irish servants versus African slaves Crucially, indentured servants were considered human beings under the law. African slaves were seen as property rather than people; ...

From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery All servants imported and brought into the Country. . . who were not Christians in their native Country. . . shall be accounted and be slaves.

Northam refers to slaves as 'indentured servants' 01:39 . CNN — Once again, Virginia’s governor caused a nationwide facepalm with race-related comments. ...

"That 50 year transformation for black Africans from IS to slavery is the ultimate proof of the racism that drove slavery, because few other indentured servants were made slaves," Eichenwald wrote.

"White indentured servitude was so very different from black slavery as to be from another galaxy of human experience," as Donald Harman Akenson put it in If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat ...

From Indentured Servitude to Racial Slavery We sometimes imagine that such oppressive laws were put quickly into full force by greedy landowners. But that's not the way slavery was established in ...

Northam refers to slaves as 'indentured servants' 01:39 . CNN — Once again, Virginia’s governor caused a nationwide facepalm with race-related comments. ...

Northam refers to slaves as 'indentured servants' 01:39 . CNN — Once again, Virginia’s governor caused a nationwide facepalm with race-related comments. ...