Thank you. That was the info I was looking for.
Bottom line is the black slaves had it easy compared to the white slaves who tended to die within two years but if they did live they went on to be free after paying their indentured servitude debt whereas the black slaves, at least until they were freed after the civil war that cost 600k American lives with countless more maimed, were slaves for life.
Pound for pound; it sure sounds like it was better to be a black slave than a white one during this era. I can’t even imagine “owning” a slave these days but that was a different era with different norms and sadly slavery still exists in some parts of the world today.
I would never say that any slave had it easy. Depending upon the nature of their owner, some led lives that were not entirely unpleasant, particularly house servants, but saying they had it easy is really misleading to the point of being wrong. But, more were comparatively well-treated than were severely abused and whipped, though, that’s a politically motivated exaggeration in the opposite direction. Indentured servants on the other hand were pretty much just throwaways, use and discard, churn and burn. They paid their transport in order to get their headrights which meant expanding their plantations. The indentured were to get part of those headrights as well but often did not.