Whenever liberals say that slavery of US blacks was a uniquely evil page in history, just remind them that during the Middle Ages, most people were peasants or serfs who were for all intents an purposes slaves of some noble lord, and that in colonial times indentured servitude applied to whites just as it applied to any other race.
Scots were sent to North Carolina as slaves after Cullodan to work in the pits. Thus the name Tarheel.