THE HISTORY OF THE IDEA OF RACE… AND WHY IT MATTERS

servitude which they saw as unfree labor, and some men who purchased headrights to laborers treated them as if they were slaves for life. Masters were often brutal; they flogged servants for disobedience, or cut off their ears, or put skewers through their tongues. But the settlers were also callous and cruel toward one another.

  Care, Of care, Unfree