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Um, not true. Actually, slaves WERE treated as indentured servants at first and could even get their own plot of land after their "contract" expired. After a while, Africans that were imported were considered slaves.

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According to Sir Nicolas Ferrars papers held at the Magdalene college in Cambridge, England. The first africans arrived to Jamestown on a dutch frigate. The census of 1619, which covered Jamestown residents for the year 1618, showed 32 Africans Non-Christians.These people were NOT the 20 Angolans who arrived in August 1619. The Angolans arrived onboard a portuguese slave ship called the San Bautista.Slavery evolved in colonies of time. We know that many of the 1619 Angolans served 3-7 year terms as indentured servants and were later freed. With the steady influx of African labor and racial miscegenation between whites and blacks of ALL statuses, Virginia chose in 1720 to give all newly arrived africans a permanent enslaved legal designation. That status did not affect those who arrived prior to the law.Many complexities to American history!

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