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Slaves or Servants?

Spiro Bolos
September 30, 2022

Slaves or Servants?

Using the 1624/25 Virginia muster database, can we determine if the Africans listed on the census document were either enslaved individuals OR indentured servants?

Lesson:
https://ush.posthaven.com/slaves-or-servants-1

Census records:
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/Muster/search.muster.cgi?start_page=0&search_type=basic&database=muster_1624&last=&first=&muster=&age-op=&age1=&age2=&status=servant&month=&year=&date=

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September 30, 2022
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  1. Name Muster Status Location Corporation Age Ship Date of Arrival

    Muster Date Notes servant servant servant servant
  2. “By the time of Portuguese colonization of South America, the

    term “negro” [negros da terra] had become almost synonymous with “slave” in the Portuguese language” (13) -- Nishida, Slavery and Identity