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The History of Indo-American Slavery
The colonial masters continued to rely on the poor whites of europe from the very beginning. Poor white children were picked up on the streets and in the almshouses of london and bristol and amsterdam and shipped off to the colonies. In 1611 king james bible used the term servant, where most other versions use slave or bondsmen. So that's a context worth keeping in mind when that word servant is used in secular documents of the same age. The servants came from all over christian europe, from germany and holland and sweden and scotland. They came these christian demi slaves the same way most black slaves came, crammed shoulder