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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:37 AM Original message |
What were "indentured servants"? |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:41 AM Response to Original message |
1. Indentured servitude was a way of locking people into labor for the |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:47 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. They "owed their soul to the company store" |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:51 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Bingo. |
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signmike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:58 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. and Matewan. Excellent movie on VHS by John Sayles, if you prefer to watch |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:59 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Good Ole Tennessee Ernie Ford |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. Well they agreed to those terms in order to get passage |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:53 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Not at all like sharecropping. |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 11:01 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. That would be true |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 11:08 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Actually, a huge number of sharecroppers where poor white people |
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Guckert (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:46 AM Response to Original message |
3. A way of working off the price for the trip to the New World |
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kentuck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Mr. Gannon, I presume? |
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Guckert (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:54 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Uh. Nope. just a bi curious GOP shill who loves $$$$ and Rep. dong |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. What does it have to do with the present? |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 10:55 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. No, they weren't "free" because during that period of servitude |
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crikkett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 05:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
18. Credit Cards & Mortgages are today's Indentured Servitude |
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DBoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
14. At least they were only required to work for seven years |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 11:09 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. No, they were told they were only required to work for 7 years, |
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Mairead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
17. They were employees under contract. |
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RamboLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-09-05 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
19. And unfortunately it is still occurring - right here in the U.S. |
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