Indentured Servitude is (sometimes) a Euphamism (Historical Discussion)

[Briananderson1138]

The topic has been discussed tangentially before, but I think the magnitude of my revalation merits a new thread.
So, a couple days ago, I got agitated by the white guilt narriative in history again. Having a peculiar weakness that makes me need to construct a cogent argument against my opponents, I looked for disproof, and looked through Nancy Isenberg's White Trash, which is probably the best mainstream argument pointing out that Whitey hasn't always had it so good either. I found that the state of so-called indentured servitude was worse than I had suspected.

I had understood it was a form of debt peonage that could be de facto equivalent to temporary slavery, but Isenberg, who seems at pains to ignore the implications, plainly states that, in early Colonial Virginia law, "servants" were classified as chattels for the duration of their term. This is defenitionally slavery. Not effectively identical to slavery, not even slavery in the broader sense of forced labor, but legally sanctioned chattel slavery. Yes, it was (theoretically) temporary, but the period of service could be extended, or the slave could be forced into effectively identical tenant farming, or he could just die before his term was up, as happened produsely, there being a perverse incentive for overwork and mistreatment, seeing as a "servant" was only a temporary investment.

Furthermore, as already outlined on this website, this slave trade was also partly supplied by kidnapping, and frequently kidnapping of actual children.

Sure, the institution might have been ameliorated into the debt peonage we think of by the time of the Revolutionary war, and it might have been less pernicious than Antebellum race slavery, but that does not diminish its evil. If the Left can call convict labor and sharecropping slavery, or call the nearly identical conditions of migrant workers in the gulf states slavery, then we should damn well call the earlier kind of"indentured servitude" debt slavery.

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

In 16-18th centuries colonial corporations made people who wanted to take the passage to the New World into slaves through indentured servitude as "payment".
I remember reading a story on one french doctor who was forced to work as plantation doctor for 3 years. He snapped, ran away and became one of the famous outlaw pirates. His name and exact era elude me.

 

[Mnutu]

Damn bro, if you’re going to use a thesaurus, do us a favor and check your spelling and grammar.

Let’s see:
Euphemism
Revelation
Narrative
Disproof is fine; but if you’re going to drop fucking cogent in a sentence, make sure that sentence is properly punctuated.
Definitionally
Profusely
Lay off effectively, you’re murdering it.
How the fuck can you drop ameliorate, debt peonage, and pernicious and ignore punctuation and simple misspellings?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

In the end it's all bullshit because Niggers decided that they (ironically) own the subject of slavery and that anything that makes any white skinned people seen as victims must be fake else they are somehow diminished by that.

Indentured Servitude can be exploitative and dehumanising as slavery and trying to argue it's different due to being phrased in legal writing is just bullshit.

 

[Chilson]

If you want white slavery just look up the Barbary states and the Ottoman slave trade. Entire European coastal towns along the Mediterranean were emptied by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves through the Ottoman slave markets from the 17th to the 19th century.

Interesting note, it got so bad for Americans that they waged war on the Barbary states in what would become known as the Barbary wars to put a stop to it. Becoming the first foreign military action for the US marines.