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@arcana @anemone @nerthos in the usa indentured servitude was often a cover for actual slavery because they also controlled your ability to pay off your debt, changed rules, charged you for room and board increases, etc.
I believe that american slavery of affrican americans poisoned all slavery discourse because black american slavery was so bad that it became offensive to say there were white slaves but if you were an indentured servant to someone that changed the rules so you could never paid off your debt you sure as hell were a slave too even if you were white, and analogously if you are a worker in dubai and your employer keeps finding ways to keep you indebted so you have to keep working, you're a slave
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@nerthos @anemone @arcana to really oversimplify it black slavery in the USA evolved out of a court case where in the 1600s there were no rules about which races could be slaves or slave owners. a black slaveowner acquired a white slave and it became a heated court case and at that point the majority decided he could not and it snowballed into that only black people could be owned by white people. I invite anyone to challenge my interpretation as it's been a while but that's how I understand it.
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@sun @arcana @anemone There were literal, by the books, white slaves though. I think it was the 1700s where you could just hire penal slaves.
But yanks never had the self-preservation to protect their own blood, and instead ceded every right they had to hostile tribes.
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