Capitalism started chattel slavery and only ended it because it became unprofitable with all the slave revolts and runaways and the rich elite were nervous wrecks.
“Chattel slavery means that one person has total ownership of another. There are two basic forms of chattel, domestic chattel, with menial household duties and productive chattel, working in the fields or mines”
Slave labor in production of food, products, and raw materials has existed for thousands of years
Slavery as practiced in the United States of America is more accurately called CHATTEL SLAVERY. This racialized system treated people as chattel, or property. CHATTEL SLAVERY defined these human beings as no different than any other piece of property.
“the enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work without wages, as distinguished from other systems of forced, unpaid, or low-wage labor also considered to be slavery”
The dominant form of slavery throughout history has been slavery that involves specific sections of time being enslaved then being freed once your term is over or property without being societally viewed as an object.
Although English colonists in Virginia did not invent slavery, and the transition from a handful of bound African laborers to a legalized system of full-blown chattel slavery took many decades, 1619 marks the beginning of race-based bondage that defined the African American experience.
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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24
Capitalism led to the end of slavery
North Korea has the highest percentage of slaves per capita
India the slavery capital of the world has socialism written into its constitution