Thanks for telling me what anyone who has looked into this issue knows. What's next thrilling information about Jamestown?
The work was the same but the circumstances vastly different. An indentured servant could work off his contract or buy it off even marry the bosses daughter. A black slave would find himself dead as a hammer and mutilated for voicing such ideas. After freedom the ex-endentured would have all civil rights the society allowed free men the slave never would enjoy those rights. If they ever obtained their freedom they could be forced to leave the state and their homes.
These are obviously totally different situations. Slavery vastly worse.
You're exaggerating wildly. Slaves were allowed to accumulate savings and could and did redeem themselves or family members. Their ability to do so was vitiated by the master's right of property in them, but most masters weren't Simon Legree types. Marriage was out, but working for the former master after emancipation wasn't.