in some places it started out as indentured.. blacks could own land if they converted to christ. they were indentured with whites and natives. there were interracial communities before the "white and black distinction". Walter Raleigh was trying to build one (lost Roanoke Colony )
around bacons rebellion, they slowly took rights away cuz:
slave owners were tired that they had to treat the servants right, they wanted to run them down, abuse and not feed them.
the slaves from Africa(not the native blacks) didnt know the terrain so they could run them down and abuse them, natives knew the terrain and whites would snitch back to europe if the masters abused them.
Thus white people went crazy, started juelzing with Religious Syncretism and Hegelism about how slaves deserved it. They started grabbing every black person they could grab. Made slavery an inheritable thing everywhere with the help of the Pope.
They grabbed freedmen, black slave merchants, black natives, etc