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Comment by Adisa on April 2, 2014 at 9:45am

Here is some additional information regarding indentured servitude. 

Servant:  (etymology)  In North American colonies and U.S., the usual designation for "slave" 17c.-18c. (in 14c.-15c. and later in Biblical translations the word often was used to render Latin servus, Greek doulos "slave").

Article Four, Clause 3 (The Fugitive Slave Clause) of the United States Constitution, reads, "No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due." 

Interesting how it is known as the Fugitive Slave Clause however does not mention the word slave....or does it?  This clause lead to The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 and 1850. The etymology of "laborer' reads, mid-14c., "manual worker," especially an unskilled one, agent noun from labor (v.). Meaning "member of the working class, member of the lowest social rank" is from c.1400.  I heard a wise man say, there is NO THING lower than a slave.  This clause is still existant, yet some fight and die to defend this constitution which clearly informs those who are lettered that slavery still exists in the USA, the land of the free.