Chattel slavery is a form of slavery where people are treated as personal property that can be bought, sold, or traded.
Imagine if your smartphone had feelings and could experience pain or happiness. Now imagine treating it poorly without any consequences because it's considered your property - this is how chattel slavery treated human beings.
Middle Passage: This was part of the transatlantic trade route where millions of Africans were transported to America as part of chattel slavery.
Indentured Servitude: A system where people agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to America; unlike chattel slavery, indentured servants were not considered property forever.
Plantation Economy: An economic system based on agricultural mass production, typically crops like tobacco and cotton; these plantations often relied on chattel slaves.
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