This list of definitions are not the newer expanded "woke" versions. Slavery and indentured servants by definition are exact opposites. The History channel and other trusted experts swap them at will as though they were interchangeable. Context is everything. If you're misunderstanding definitions from the period, then you're misunderstanding history.
Slave - someone who is legally owned by another person and is forced to work without pay, sometimes for life.
Slave Trader - the trade or business of procuring human beings by capture or purchase, transported to a distant country, selling them as slaves.
Plantation owner - a business who creates job's and hires people under a mutually agreed upon contract of indenture for a specific amount of time, with negotiable provisions. Indentured servants are compensated. They were also given 50 acres a head when they were freed under Headright's until after the civil war.
Enslaved - to subjugate.
to make submissive : SUBDUE
Indentured - A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term. A deed executed by more than one person.
Indentured servant - a person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance.
To read an actual contract of indenture as archived by historians click (here). It describes a mutual agreement with negotiable provisions and offered court intervention for both parties if terms were not followed.
Manumission - liberation from slavery, bondage, or restraint. a setting free, emancipation.
Headrights - Individuals who could afford it would accumulate land by paying for poor individuals to travel to Virginia. In the 1600s, the cost was roughly 6 pounds per person, or approximately $215 today. This system led to the development of indentured servitude. In this system, poor individuals would work for a certain number of years to repay those who sponsored their trip. Even if the indentured servant did not make it to Virginia alive, the sponsor still received land.
Negro - Spanish and Portuguese for the color black, in Latin it's spelled - nigr, niger which is where the word nigger comes from.
Mulatto - a person of mixed white and Black ancestry.
Psychosis - Psychosis is a condition that affects the way your brain processes information. It causes you to lose touch with reality. You might see, hear, or believe things that aren’t real. Psychosis is a symptom, not an illness. It can be triggered by a mental illness, a physical injury or illness, substance abuse, or extreme stress or trauma.
Propaganda - information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Egotistical - characterized by egotism. having, showing, or arising from an exaggerated sense of self importance. One of the three divisions of the psyche in psychoanalytic theory that serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of, and adaptation to reality. reality as "you" believe it exists versus reality as it "actually" exists.
This glossary is a work in progress and will continue to expand as I compile more data
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