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Search Anthony Johnson, Jamestown Colony. They called them indentured servants..he had a few after he became a free man. There is a diference..freemen and free man. I dont remember what the dif was but it was something like a freeman was a indentured man that was comming out of his term..or something like that..A free man was just that..not belonging or beholding to anyone.
There were white slaves back then..matter of fact in 1701 "the calender of state papers, colonial series of 1701 records 25,000 slaves in Barbados in which 21,700 were white. White Slaves...not indentured servants. These were those who were taken off the streets in the old country as paupers and sold into slavery to get rid of them. After the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in Scotland some Scots were "sold" into slavery in the colonies and treated less than black slaves and were even looked down upon by the black slaves as a lessor.