Regarding "The Mayflower", I find it difficult to believe that there were any "Servants" or "Mistresses" on board the ship as it was manned by strict Puritan/Protestants who would not have approved of such things. Leaving that aside, why is it that so much importance is given to events in 1620 with "The Mayflower" and Plymouth, Massachussetts when the first English colonies in what is now the United States were actually created in Virginia a dozen or so years earlier. Indeed, one of them ... Jamestown, Virginia, founded on May 14th 1607, is still inhabited to this day .. this link has some of the history ....
http://www.apva.org/rediscovery/page.php?page_id=6
For those who are interested, the link states that the first documented arrival of Africans in what is now the U.S.A. was in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 [[one year before the arrival of "The Mayflower") when a Dutch Captain traded some "servants" for food.
Roger