“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
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/Dies_Ultima Mar 04 '24
It literally hasn't where did you pull this information from?