Not to mention a very important fact: Many, many Europeans came to America as indentured servants as a way of covering the cost of the trip.
I understand there is a big difference, but the result today is the same: the progeny of the slaves are just as free as are the progeny of those early colonists. All are American citizens.
Many people around the world desire to have that claim as is witnessed at our Southern Border every day.
My direct name ancestor came to VA in 1636 on a deal where he would work for nothing for seven years, then obtain a chunk of land and get his own indentured servants. It was a kind of Ponzi scheme, didn't take too long before the land ran out of indentured servants, so they started bringing Irish slaves, and when that didn't work out, the African slave trade started.
Every slave lived out hell, and there's no sugar-coating that. But every slave's descendant today is better off than any of the descendants of those who stayed in Africa and didn't become slaves; that is God's reparations.
Many, many Europeans came to America as indentured servants as a way of covering the cost of the trip.
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Blacks also came as indentured servants in the early 17th century. Check out the history of Anthony Johnson, a wealthy black man, and the 1655 court case with a black servant named Jason Casar who was denied his release by Johnson.