Which makes my point. The African slaves did not sign papers to become indentured servants by their own free will. Thank you for providing support for my case.
NO ONE wrote on census documents except census-TAKERS, official government agents.
Your quip was a non-sequitur since no slave OR genius millionaire would be writing on the census form - it’s not the way it was done back then. Ipso facto the quip made no sense.