I found the reading and lecture for class Monday to be very interesting. I’ve known about the narrative of white slavery for a while now, and in more recent times, its been used somewhat frequently. Before now I just chose to ignore conversations where the concept was used. Thanks to this reading though, I now have a much better understanding of what people are referencing when they bring up white slavery. I also now understand how unfounded a lot of the claims about white slavery are. In the reading, I learned that there aren’t a lot of primary sources about the difference between slaves and servants. However, the lecture and reading has made it clear that servants were systemically altogether different. When people bring up white slavery, it’s usually meant to undermine the difficulties of slavery against blacks. Considering how different white servants in Barbados were treated though, the argument that black people should “get over” oppression is a great misunderstanding.