In some cases, few slaves even became plantation owners themselves, employing indentured and convict labor, white as well as black. On the plantation, both black and white laborers were exploited, looked down upon, and rewarded and punished all equally. It was in the later half of the 1600's, there were no laws in the northern colonies that recognized black and white laborers. Those who owned black and white laborers saw no basic differences between each other as human beings. Their obvious differences in skin color and physical features, culture, and language did not matter to the slave owner as long as their property worked. Being in the same group, both white and black laborers had to interact with each other during their labor, but also fraternized on their free time, and even had intimate relationships. So they not only worked together, but played, loved, and when the time came, united and rose up together against their common
In some cases, few slaves even became plantation owners themselves, employing indentured and convict labor, white as well as black. On the plantation, both black and white laborers were exploited, looked down upon, and rewarded and punished all equally. It was in the later half of the 1600's, there were no laws in the northern colonies that recognized black and white laborers. Those who owned black and white laborers saw no basic differences between each other as human beings. Their obvious differences in skin color and physical features, culture, and language did not matter to the slave owner as long as their property worked. Being in the same group, both white and black laborers had to interact with each other during their labor, but also fraternized on their free time, and even had intimate relationships. So they not only worked together, but played, loved, and when the time came, united and rose up together against their common