SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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middlings
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apprentices
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Detailed explanation-1: -The three major groups were domestic, skilled and field slave, although there were often important subdivisions within each of these categories.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a social institution, chattel slavery classes slaves as chattels (personal property) owned by the enslaver; like livestock, they can be bought and sold at will.
Detailed explanation-3: -Regardless of the slave’s origin, he was nearly always a marginal person in the society in which he was enslaved. In Africa slaves were despised, and their low status, which was passed on to freedmen, persists to the present time. In most societies most slaves were at the very bottom of society.
Detailed explanation-4: -Historically, there are many different types of slavery including chattel, bonded, forced labour and sexual slavery.