This excellent book explores the world of sea travel and colonial England through its main character 9 Nat Bowditcli Nat has to give up dreams of Harvard to bee an indentured (受契约约束的)servant Noheless he teaches himself advanced mathematics,and grows up to bee captain of his own ship...
like the white indentured servants brought from Europe. But the strong probability is that, even if they were listed as "servants" (a more familiar category to the English), they were viewed as being different from white servants, were treated differently, and in fact were slaves. In any ca...