. . . to diminish the horrors that have often accompanied the black experience in the United States. Indentured servants were not slaves, though the experience of some may have bordered on that.
Slavery was an established system under which one human owned another, and could do with the slave as he saw fit, up to and including killing the slave.
Indentured servitude was a contractual system under which a person apprenticed to someone FOR A SPECIFIED TERM. In the case of minors, parents or the state as guardian indentured them. There were frequent abuses of the system, but they WERE abuses. It was NOT an abuse of the system to lynch your black slave.
This post is just another example, and a lame one at that, to minimize the black experience and claim that it differs little from whites. It's really sort of pathetic.
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