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What Separates an Indentured Laborer From an Enslaved Person? - Defining the Spectrum of Migration and Coercion | Sleepy Facts About History
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A single nineteenth-century ship could carry a family fleeing famine, a laborer bound by contract, and a human being listed as cargo with a price beside their name. While they crossed the same ocean and experienced the same cramped conditions, the words we use to describe them—migrant, diaspora, exile, refugee, indentured laborer, or slave—are not interchangeable labels. Each term carries a specific balance of coercion and choice, of law and memory, of belonging and its loss. This episode…
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