Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Femi Lewis, About.com: 'human bondage transformed from indentured servitude to a life of enslavement.'

About.com African-American History
Femi Lewis, About.com Guide
The Beginning of Enslavement
May 31, 2013
Historian Frances Latimer argues that enslavement "happened one law at a time, one person at a time." Throughout the 17th Centuries, as the American colonies grew, human bondage transformed from indentured servitude to a life of enslavement.

From 1619 to 1696, laws were consistently created throughout the thirteen colonies that supported and protected the rights of land and slave owners.  

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