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Semantics aside, they were treated like shit... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #1
I think you are confusing that early indentured servitude PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #2
Wasn't that nice - Thank you. NBachers Jun 2020 #4
I am glad you liked it. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #7
I had that experience the first time I went to Boston: there was a "cousin" on every street corner Hekate Jun 2020 #10
You may qualify for dual citizenship. (I wish such a thing was possible for me... NurseJackie Jun 2020 #17
I do, but tracking down the required legal papers has proved a challenge. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2020 #18
Ownership, the legal right to rape or kill at will is hardly "semantics." Maru Kitteh Jun 2020 #3
+100000 Celerity Jun 2020 #5
Thank you!! smh Solomon Jun 2020 #12
Yeah. irisblue Jun 2020 #13
I actually had a white in-law post on Facebook about how when she was a kid she picked cotton. SunSeeker Jun 2020 #6
Did She Do It Until She Died? ProfessorGAC Jun 2020 #15
Yup, she's a buffoon and a racist Trump supporter, voting against her own self interest. SunSeeker Jun 2020 #19
Satire...think a Blazing Saddles line is appropiate. Xolodno Jun 2020 #8
I thought of that line too when I was looking this up Quixote1818 Jun 2020 #9
Up to the 70s in the UK, landladies used to put signs in the window, No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish. OnDoutside Jun 2020 #16
Yeah...better sold for supposed debts or crimes whistler162 Jun 2020 #11
Indentured servitude was for a fixed term, not life Spider Jerusalem Jun 2020 #14
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