The Indentured Laborer and the Unenslaved Africans

In colonial virginia, there is an uprising and what was called a union of commoners where indentured english and enslaved africans came together. And again, that was deeply threatening to the power system. The response was to start to introduce this iisiness concept of black and white and t codify it into law. So frankness was dangled as a little acaris in front of the indentured servants to say that you should not be joining with these people because this system says that you are better. It says you were better.