the coli y'all.
One person gets sentenced to 7 years in prison then gets released.
The next person gets sentenced to life in prison and says
7 years, life.. it's basically the same thing. They just calling it something different.
Your analogy is terrible and not even close to what I'm saying. And obviously you know nothing about indentured servitude if think it was as easy as a prison sentence. The death rate of many of the servants was incredibly high and most were treated like, well you know, slaves.
Even in today's modern world we have people who are called "indentured servants" but are really just slaves. Places like Qatar, Asia and Eastern Europe, even in our own country today there are people who are enslaved from other parts of the world.
Since you're so caught up with names, so were many of the sharecroppers post-Reconstruction not like slaves either? What do you think happened to many of the slaves slavethepost-Reconstruction? Many of them weren't technically slaves anymore, but they were permanently trapped in their contracts because of the Black Codes, so even after slavery "ended" many blacks were still enslaved.