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Yeah, and people forget - or never knew - that a huge number of the Irish and Scottish immigrants to the New World came over as indentured servants, which was essentially slavery for a specified period of time, in return for passage aboard a ship.

So truthfully, a LOT of the slaves here were poor white people, and a disproportionate number of them were children, many of them sent ahead by parents who might - or might not - ever be able to join them, and buy their way out of servitude.

In many cases the indentured servants were treated far worse than slaves, as slaves were legally transferable property, and thus considered to be more valuable in the long run. Horses and cattle were also considered to be more valuable.

And some of the servants' masters would trump up imagined charges against them, thus prolonging their period of indenture, resulting in many indentured servants never regaining their freedom, and dying in servitude.

In many jurisdictions they had few legal rights or recourse. Most could not read, and it usually came down to who was believed, the owner or the servant - and the servants usually lost.

Theres more side to the story. Kids today deserve better