Technically yes but one was like a temporary prison sentence and one was a life sentence. KWIM? "Our" (yuck) ancestors were well versed in how to treat people like dirt before they came to the US and then took things to a whole new very low level.
My great-grandfather was a decorated war hero, he was also a servant in a wealthy household. He left England to come to the US, leaving his wife and kids behind, so he could have a choice. Many servants were tied into their families and if they tried to leave to find work elsewhere they would be blacklisted(I am sure there's a more formal word for is and I am sure somebody will come along and correct me
) But many were "prisoners" of their employers. You worked for them under the conditions they specified or you wouldn't work anywhere ever again.
He left, paid his dues here for a few years then was free to be the man he was in the end. ****ty but not even close..