Most likely some Africans were slaves and some were servants. At any rate, the status of people in bondage was very confusing, even to those who were living at the time. Whatever the status of ...
The timing of the Virginia colony was ideal ... But their life was not an easy one, and the punishments meted out to people who wronged were harsher than those for non-servants.
An investigation of human remains from the 17th century British settlement in Jamestown, Virginia ... suggested that the ...