Slavery - I saw this on another site

[Derek]

<span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Black slaves were treated better than poor whites/indentured servants etc bcause they were financially MUCH more valuable FACT </span></span></span>






Anyone care to comment?

[franksterr]

Re: Slavery - I saw this on another site

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Black slaves were treated better than poor whites/indentured servants etc bcause they were financially MUCH more valuable FACT </span></span></span>


Anyone care to comment? </div></div>


Yes I have read this before and it was probable true in the early yrs, but by the time slave markets were being populated with the children of African slaves....and before the color code was employed and became standard - wherein to be a slave became synonymous with being black that premium was gone.

[Wahalla]

Re: Slavery - I saw this on another site

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Black slaves were treated better than poor whites/indentured servants etc bcause they were financially MUCH more valuable FACT </span></span></span>






Anyone care to comment? </div></div> i dontagree. they were treated the same. slavery was cruel, but examine mortality rates of slaves and indentured or even slaves and masters they were similar. Mortality rates fell after one generation. Also note that laws to govorn the treatment of the slaves improved in the 18th centuary.

[jah_yout]

Re: Slavery - I saw this on another site

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Black slaves were treated better than poor whites/indentured servants etc bcause they were financially MUCH more valuable FACT </span></span></span>






Anyone care to comment? </div></div>


you have to take broad, sweeping blanket statements like this with a grain of salt...it is just too over-generalized;

of course some enslaved persons of afrikan descent was treated better than some indentured or enslaved persons of european descent...
but that blanket statement ignores the progression &amp; history of the institution of chattel slavery in the west;
too simplistic a statement

[Emperah]

Re: Slavery - I saw this on another site

Ancestors are at the bottom of the atlantic are wondering how their chilldren, family, offspring could even have such a conversation.
REALLY!

Dem also wonder how we can find any goodness in de jubilee foolishness

[kia027]

Re: Slavery - I saw this on another site

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Black slaves were treated better than poor whites/indentured servants etc bcause they were financially MUCH more valuable FACT </span></span></span>






Anyone care to comment? </div></div>

Yes I read that as well. In a book titled how the Irish became white, indentured servants were treated worse because there was a limited financial investment in them, especially after they finished their term. Slaves however were a commodity and had to be treated well to keep the plantations going.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Slavery - I saw this on another site

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Black slaves were treated better than poor whites/indentured servants etc bcause they were financially MUCH more valuable FACT </span></span></span>


Anyone care to comment? </div></div>well i suppose thst exclude the slaves that were thrown overboard and otherwise murdered to collect insurance. Slaves were more valuable dead than sick and nonproductive. Eith tge insurance tgey would buy replacement. Whoever said that have a history difficiency.

[makabush]

Re: Slavery - I saw this on another site

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Black slaves were treated better than poor whites/indentured servants etc bcause they were financially MUCH more valuable FACT </span></span></span>






Anyone care to comment? </div></div>
This makes no sense. There were laws that protected servants to some extent. There were no such laws for slaves.

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/servlaws.html#4