rdinary whites of the revolutionary generation galling experience of a variety of social oppression and increased their receptivity of critiques of white political enslavement (Roediger 30).
Roediger finds that at the time of the Revolution, the similar experiences of white indentured servants and black slaves contributed to attacks on racial slavery and on indentured servitude alike.
However, whites and blacks became more separated after this, as Roediger notes, in part because the identification indentured servants made with slaves was imaginary:
Conditions were close enough to permit, perhaps necessitate, such an imagination, but the differences remained and mattered both for how ordinary whites saw slaves and how they saw themselves (Roediger 31).
Roediger shows how racial attitudes developed and changed over time and how
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