Let me flip the coin over and ask the reverse question,....... if it's allowed.

[KittyWampus]

119. Not such a small number of white entrants.

And this is just Virginia. I am a history geek. A lot went on in the Americas before the slave system was up and running.

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Indentured_Servants_in_Colonial_Virginia

With a long history in England, indentured servitude became, during most of the seventeenth century, the primary means by which Virginia planters filled their nearly inexhaustible need for labor. At first, the Virginia Company of London paid to transport servants across the Atlantic, but with the institution of the headright system in 1618, the company enticed planters and merchants to incur the cost with the promise of land. As a result, servants flooded into the colony, where they were greeted by deadly diseases and often-harsh conditions that killed a majority of newcomers and left the rest to the mercy of sometimes-cruel masters. The General Assembly passed laws regulating contract terms, as well as the behavior and treatment of servants. Besides benefiting masters with long indentures, these laws limited servant rights while still allowing servants to present any complaints in court.