It is made clear in the first clause "That all servants imported and brought into this country, by sea or land, who were not christians in their native country shall be accounted and be slaves." The comparison with this statement can be seen as though a servant would be looked upon as a slave making the comparison between a slave and an indentured servant identical. Although some were seen as indentured servants coming into the New World, and not labeled as a slave, they were still treated as one. The bottom line was that both slaves and indentured servants were looked upon as property and therefore treated as property by whomever had a license to do as they pleased upon them. .
In an analytical sense, both slaves and indentured servants were treated as property and nothing more. All masters, owners, and leaders on the ships that bring the slaves and servants over, all take extreme advantage of their ability to do what they want to them. This act concerning servants and slaves also restricts what the servants and slaves could do to defend themselves. The act also gives the authority to whomever owes the slave's or servant's license to do practically whatever they wish expect for persons without license to "buy, sell, or receive of, to, or from, and servant, or slave, any coin or commodity whatsoever." Portraying them both as animals just goes to show how savagely people treated others based upon status in which they were born into or what they believed in. .
As far as how they were treated in the working conditions, both slaves and servants worked side by side on the plantations. It was said that this was done to keep the servants in their place and not to let them get out of hand in any way. For both the slaves and the servants, the smallest petty crime was treated with harsh punishment to keep both in their place. The masters and owners of the slaves and servants did not want them to think that they would get any special treatment over anyone else or each other.
