Racialized lifelong chattel slavery refers to a system in which individuals are enslaved for their entire lives, based on their race or ethnicity, and treated as property that can be bought, sold, and inherited.
Related terms
Triangular Trade: The triangular trade was a complex network of trading routes between Europe, Africa, and the Americas during which enslaved Africans were transported to the New World.
Middle Passage: The Middle Passage was the brutal journey across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans endured during their transportation to the Americas.
Plantation System: The plantation system refers to large agricultural estates in Colonial America where cash crops such as tobacco or cotton were grown using slave labor.
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