Indentured servants were freed once their debt was paid. Slaves were Owned for generations and generally not allowed to pay their way to freedom. Southern plantation owners would not pay a dime for a white slave as the climate in the south was detrimental. Slavery was about cheap labor more than it was racism. Poor whites resented black slaves understandably . Often the slaves were better educated than the poor whites in the surrounding neighborhoods.. Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson educated their slaves. I grew up in Southern history, with Southern Christian white teachers as well as black teachers and children of slaves. It's sad that y'all are so keyed up on race than MAGA.

Indentured servants were freed once their debt was paid. Slaves were Owned for generations and generally not allowed to pay their way to freedom. Southern plantation owners would not pay a dime for a white slave as the climate in the south was detrimental. Slavery was about cheap labor more than it was racism. Poor whites resented black slaves understandably . Often the slaves were better educated than the poor whites in the surrounding ne