It is sad though, that the people didn't see the Africans as human being and how they were but were so afraid that they felt they had to control them. .
The next part of the chapter goes on to tell the treatment of the African slaves. It also explains the treatment of white indentured servants versus black slaves. At that time it was explained that the African people were convinced that they too were indentured servants and would be let free when they had reached their appointed time. However, when there times did come they were forced to continue working. The same is true for some white indentured servants but at least with the whites most of the time they were set free and able to take land ownership. Takaki explains the differences in punishments that blacks and whites received. He tells the story of two white man and a black man getting captured after attempting to run away and then he explains their punishments as follows, "They were each given thirty lashes. In addition, both white men were required to work for their masters for an additional year and for the colony for three more years. But the third runaway received the most severe punishment shall serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural Life here or elsewhere " (55). This fact was appalling to me. It is just awful that the white people of government treated both people of servitude with such great diversity just because of the color of their skin. Takaki goes on to tell other accounts of stories that ended just the same for other black people, turning their "indentured servitude " into lifelong slavery. The most heartbreaking part of this chapter though, wasn't even what a black servant said but it was when a white servant said, "I thought no head hand been able to hold so much water as hath and doth daily flow from mine eyes " (54). That stuck out to me because that quote, coming from a white servant, I can't imagine how much worse it must have been for a black slave.