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The African Slave Trade
White servants were sold individually on auction blocks. The food was poor and scant, and mortality was high. Sometimes more than half of the servants died before the ship reached america. Many observers said that the lot of the white servant was worse than that of the black slave for as long as it lasted. In practice, as almost every student of white servitude has pointed out, he was a defacto slave. If we judge by contemporary reports, almost all of the contents of pandora's box engulfed the hapless white servant. Pandora's box had not quite spilled out the last of its contents.