Outside of Judaism and Christianity, the history of mankind is pretty ugly.
A public school teacher in Northeast USA 45 years ago was allowed to teach this to my non-advanced History class.
The author of your blog (?you?) writes disjointed, unorganized, random thoughts.
My first ancestor in this country (before it was USA) was an indentured servant. He was Dutch, on my mother’s side, and was brought to “New Netherlands” (early 1600’s) by Kiliaen van Rensselaer, the patroon of Rensselaerwyck in New Netherlands. He was a wheelwright and wagon maker who was contracted to make 8 wagons for his master before he could work for himself. He eventually got his freedom and 100 acres of land south of Albany, NY.
Give me a reason to believe an indentured servant was a slave.
Where and who sold slaves and where they came from
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3818053/posts
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Slavery was endemic in North America when the Spaniards discovered it. As was cannibalism, human sacrifice, and torture.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=2&psid=449
“During the 17th century, indentured servants suffered an appalling death rate. Half of all white servants in the Chesapeake colonies of Virginia and Maryland died within five years of their arrival. Since servants cost half as much as slaves, they were a more economical investment.”
Being a slave meant you were more likely to survive, since your owner had an incentive to keep you healthy.
I remember reading/seeing a piece that basically started:
They arrived in chains, in the steerage of ships and upon arrival were put to work doing menial jobs...
The ‘punch line’ was they were IRISH arriving in NY.
Like the interred Japanese get ‘top billing’, we seldom hear of the Italians or Germans interred on the East Coast in early WWII and the Germans in WWI interred or ‘forced’ to register and not able to live near military facilities.
Indentured servant descendant here.