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To: TimF who wrote (8380)	3/13/2001 8:00:12 PM
From: robnhood	Respond to of 82486

In present day North America?--- Lot's , I'd daresay most have sold themselves into slavery. How many cannot identify with , "I owe , I owe It's off to work I go...?????

To: TimF who wrote (8380)	3/13/2001 8:02:06 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 82486

What percentage of slaves became slaves voluntarily? My guess is much less then one percent. Well, perhaps. Depends how you define slavery. I have been listening to a lecture series on American History (by the Teaching Company which if you don't know them you should -- ed plug), and finding some things they never taught me in high school or college. For example, many of the early settlers in the middle and southern colonies (Georgia in particular) came over as indentured servants or, I forget the name he used, but workers who were "paid" by having had their passage paid for them. The ship owner would give them passage, then sell their services in the colonies to pay himself back for the cost of passage In both cases, it was slavery in all but name. Purely voluntary. If they survived for seven years, which not many did given the terrible conditions and diseases, they got a plot of land. I agree it wasn't slavery in the same manner as black slavery, but it wasn't much different either, except for the hope of land at the end of it.