... approximately the same status as white indentured servants. Such reasoning failed to notice that Englishmen, in the early seventeenth century, used the work servant when they meant slave in our sense, and, indeed, white Southerners invariably used servant until 1865 and beyond. Slave entered the Southern vocabulary as a technical word in trade, law and politics. At the time that future president ... moved to the Old Southwest which was definitely no secret to the public. The last and final revolution in the history of American bondage was a revolution in moral values and sensibility. Fo...

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