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So, the initial transition from Africans operating as indentured servants in the early Thirteen Colonies to full fledged slavery took decades and a series of law suits and eventually laws. What if the transition never happened and Africans arriving in the Colonies continued to be treated as indentured servants for a period of years with their children never being slaves as well.