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RE: Virginian Successor Quantico
02-11-2019, 12:21 AM
The distinction is also not that important. The line between indentured servitude and slavery is pretty thin.
Although to be fair a lot of the first Europeans that came to the Thirteen Colonies were also indentured servants. The trip was long, dangerous and expensive, so it's very understandable that the people paying for the workforce to move, which is usually rich colonists, would demand a long term commitment from the labourers instead of the risk of them running off into the depths of the continent to settle there.
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RE: Virginian Successor Quantico
02-11-2019, 06:30 AM
Five years was the average length of servitude if I remember correctly, and none more than ten years at least so long as you weren't a convict.
I will admit I don't know offhand what brought about the change except the shift later from sustenance crops to cash crops by the colonists, but that was arguably a reasonable amount of time to sign away for a new start.
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RE: Virginian Successor Quantico
02-11-2019, 07:52 AM
Here is a historían take on that ‘indentured servants’ comment.
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https://twitter.com/historianess/status/...64800?s=21
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
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RE: Virginian Successor Quantico
02-11-2019, 09:27 AM
I will say this: some people really do try to push being 'Politically Correct' so far that it winds up going over the hill and into the other valley. Arguing with conservatives can annoy the hell out of me, but self-righteous ass-clowns that parade themselves as social justice warriors just plain grate on my nerves.
