Recommended reading for those interested in the issue of slavery: "They Were White and They Were Slaves The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America" compiled by Michael A. Hoffman II, ISBN 0-929903-05-6 . A well documented commentary, often documented from paragraph to paragraph. Excerpt from the book review " the slave trade in WHITES, hundreds of thousands of whom were kidnapped, chained, whipped, and worked to death in the American colonies." I am a descendant of "indentured servants" who became citizens of Spartanburg County, SC eventually,thus my interest in this publication. Mr. Hoffman does not gloss over the defination of 'indentured servant." Shirley Wagstaff, a southern transplant to Bandon, Oregon