The much harsher and greater degree of subjection and degradation of American servants, and other laborers like apprentices and such, led to the more acute perception of subjection on the part of Americans than their counterparts in Britain. It also may have tended to obscure the racial distinctions on matters of subjection: the great correlation between race and degradation, that is, slaves occupied the most degraded position, but degradation and subjection or not unique to them; they were only the most abject version of it
