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In reply to the discussion: 'The election was unconstitutional': Oaf Creeper Stewart Rhodes testimony goes off the rails [View all]Warpy
(114,616 posts)to the hangman in a lot of those cases. The only branch of my family here in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were Dutchmen who probably used some of these indentured servants in upstate New York. Like laves in the south, they were bought and sold, a servant's remaining time sold to someone else if the first owner needed fast money.
The difference was that any children born to married indentured servants were not the property of the master and weren't chattel.
The concept of one's fellow citizens being trash originated in England and sending the trash offshore was very popular. Making some of the expense of that back by selling them to temporary owners was also popular.
Everybody made out like bandits but the people who were thrown off small holding farms by the series of Enclosure Laws, with no option but to flock into already overcrowded cities where there were no jobs or infrastructure for them.