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SPC Erich Guenther
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Also during that era and also frequently left out of the context of slavery was that immigrants used indentured servitutude contracts to pay for their immigration to the United States. It was a form of contracted slavery in which the individual promised to work for free or greatly reduced wages in return for a sponsor paying their immigration fees and costs to come to the United States. The problem with that system which the large plantation holders saw was the contracts came to an end and the servant on indentured servitude was free to go and start their new life. It had tremendous disadvantages to a plantation owner in that they had constant turnover, were constantly training and retraining people and the number of folks under indentured servitude were not enough to grow the plantation economy.......hence they turned more to slavery as the solution.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Great article share sir.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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"America was not conceived in racism. America's Founders thought slavery was a violation of divine and natural law that needed to be placed on the road to extinction. The compromises in the U.S. Constitution with slavery were put there to ensure the creation of a new system of government powerful enough to eradicate slavery when circumstances permitted. The argument that slavery was good for slaves and good for masters only came in the decades after ratification of the Constitution—and it is an argument that shares more in common with today's critics of the Founding than it does with its champions."
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SPC Erich Guenther
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Has its roots in the indentured servitude contracts at the time.....I suspect, see my post above.
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