Greg Carter wrote:
> Let us not forget the Irish and the Scottish when you talk about slavery  
> Ok the term that was used was indenture servants but when you have a choice  
> of going to prison for some petty crime and most of the time trumped up 
> charges  just to force the people off their land .
 > Or selling themselves in to bondage, gee I 
call that slavery.
 > And then the ones who paid their way over 
knowing that they had them over
 > the barrel would make up other charges to 
keep them indentured for longer.

Absolutely. The indentured were not just 
Irish and Scots. They were also English 
caught in the British legal net.

The standard term of indenture was seven 
years for an adult, but that term could and 
was extended for pregnancy, sickness, and 
minor children. Colonial North America was a 
deadly place for many Europeans, too: not 
only was the weather different from home, 
there were also new diseases, such as yellow 
fever.

[snip]
> Slavery is wrong in any book by todays standards  but slavery has gone  on 
> through out history by every group of people.

Yes.

> Oh yea do not forget the North had slaves and all of the slaves ships were  
> owned by northerners
>  

True! One example is Phillis Wheatley -- sold 
off the boat from Africa to a woman in Rhode 
Island.


Elizabeth Whitaker

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