Enslaved Africans and indentured servants did not have the inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that British colonists asserted to justify their Declaration of Independence. Nor were they included among the “People of the United States” who established the ...
ADJ.devoted, faithful, good, loyal, trusted | female, male | maid | hired | indentured | personal | domestic, farm, household, royal VERB + SERVANTemploy, have SERVANT + VERBserve sb, wait on sbAn army of servants waited on the king's household. ...
s inhabitants were denied essential rights. Enslaved Africans and indentured servants did not have the inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that British colonists asserted to justify theirDeclaration of Independence. Nor were they included among the “People of the ...
European indentured labourers, and European masters lived fairly intimately. Typically, all three of these groups spoke similarly until a colony shifted from subsistence to plantationagricultureand institutionalizedsegregation. The hypothesis proposed by several creolists in the 1970s and ’80s—namely, th...
s inhabitants were denied essential rights. Enslaved Africans and indentured servants did not have the inalienable right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” that British colonists asserted to justify theirDeclaration of Independence. Nor were they included among the “People of the ...
The uninterrupted history of Black people in the United States began in 1619, when 20 Africans were landed in the EnglishcolonyofVirginia. These individuals were not enslaved people butindentured servants—persons bound to an employer for a limited number of years—as were many of the settlers of...