This is a absolutely correct. And it included whites. I have a descendant that arrived in the Province of Carolina in 1642. The ship's manifest listed him as a prisoner of the crown. He was bought into servitude instead of rotting in jail. Good choice, I guess. He labored on a plantation, err, swamp land, along the New River. Must have been brutally hot, mosquito infested work conditions.
I have a descendant that arrived in the Province of Carolina in 1642.