Reply #54: Indentured servitude was different. [View All]

[SoCalDem]

If one could "slip away" and get to another place, it was very possible to present yourself as just another immigrant,and to blend in.

Black people did not have that option. They had to worry that every person they met, might be the one who would capture them and return them to slavery, and they had few if any freed people in their families who were in a position to take them in.