Is it true that there were Caucasian slaves in the USA in the early 1800s?”
In the early days of the American colonies, there wasn’t really a system of race based slavery as we think of it today. Tobacco was the main (really, the only) cash crop of Virginia and the Carolinas, and “deep South” states like Georgia and Alabama were mostly unsettled. . The tobacco plantations were mostly worked by a class of workers called indentured servants. Indentured servants were usually Caucasian (almost always British) men and women who had sold their labor for a period of anywhere from 3 – 15 years for a variety of reasons. Some indentured servants wanted to start over in the colonies, but couldn’t afford the boat passage, so they sold themselves as indentured labor to pay for the ticket. Other indentured servants were criminals whose sentence was transportation to the colonies and labor as an indentured servant for a set amount of time. . Indentured servitude was similar to what we think of as slavery in many ways: a person’s indenture could be bought or sold without thei
