On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:50:15 -0700, Calif Bill wrote:


Nope. Slavery was mostly indentured servants at first.

And, Over half of all white immigrants to the English colonies of North
America during the 17th and 18th centuries consisted of indentured
servants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servant

And only 26% of the people in NC owned slaves.

Yeah, but 29% of the total population in the upper south, were slaves.
47% in the lower south.

http://members.aol.com/Jfepperson/stat.html