re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I understand the need for imported labor. but indentured servants are being paid and are not the property of the landowner. that was never enough: they needed to force people to do the hardest work

Indentured servants were effectively slaves for seven years, as I understand it. They basically were working off the debt incurred by having some coyote hook them up with sea transport over here.