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To: 17th Miss Regt
And, of course, there is the inconvenient fact that from 1619 to 1642 there was no slavery in the English colonies in America. There was indentured servitude

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.

14 posted on 03/06/2020 11:13:00 AM PST by RubinBoomer (PA for Trump 2020)
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I have a descendant that arrived in the Province of Carolina in 1642.


That is extremely unlikely. :)


29 posted on 03/06/2020 1:17:53 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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