Indentured servants in the American colonies were treated exactly like slaves in the 1600s and well into the 1700s (but that's not the timeframe under discussion here). Indentureds were treated worse than most know, while slaves were actually treated better. (In the early yrs)
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Evidence? Also, if you’d read the article, you would have seen that indentured servants (unlike slaves) 1) were legally considered human 2) didn’t pass on their status to their children 3) had a fixed amount of time for their status. Sounds pretty good.
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Most blacks were also treated as indenture servants But as you say "Sounds pretty good"pic.twitter.com/1ySPbpJRyU
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The first 16 - 19...dude i waa going to look for the number but you posted it yourself. Thats not even 1% of slaves.
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You need to go back to school & take English comprehension There was a period after that statement. All baptized blks were not considered slaves They were servants
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Your statement is only correct for a short period of time and in one place. Virginia law 1670-1691 technically gave baptized Christians their freedom (though how many black slaves actually got it is up for grabs).
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Most Irish came to America in the 1800s. Harsh slave laws were already well established by then, so they would not have been legal slaves although they were viewed as racially to Black slaves during that time.
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Primarily because you define slavery in such a way that they don't qualify, but to each his own.
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Well, they’re defining indentured servitude as different from slavery because they’re two distinct categories. Legally speaking they aren’t the same thing. The online “Irish slavery” memes intentionally conflate the two.
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This conflation is (largely) done with the political purpose of undermining what enslaved black people went through in order to say “my ancestors went through that too and you don’t see us complaining!” It’s not literally the same thing.
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Just because white europeans were no included in the definition doesn't mean it didn't happen.
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Nobody is saying indentured servitude didn’t happen or was actually a good thing Slavery is a specific legal term with a specific legal definition that’s different from the way it is casually used There are multiple kinds of unfree labor that aren’t slavery (e.g. serfdom)
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#FakeNews In 10 years 900k Irish killed, enslaved or died of famine In contrast only 380k black slaves brought to Americapic.twitter.com/TLsYHrJScl
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How many indentured servants were "bred" to produce more indentured servants? Did indentured servitude create an industry, profitable in itself, for manufacturing bodies?
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Shhhh, he wants to think he's right
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It's a slow news day and you don't dare tell the truth so you have to make up another story.
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That’s not made up though. There’s this thing called the library and this other thing called google and you can literally learn about this stuff today.pic.twitter.com/54J7HMH6tB
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Jennifer doesn't want her tired, false talking points taken away
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Thanks for setting the record straight, I was confused about this too. It comes from a toxic wish for victimhood, and belittles how damaging real slavery was.
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