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GCSE History · key term
A system in which people are legally treated as property that can be bought, sold or inherited.
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Paper 2
A form of slavery in which the law treats enslaved people as property.
Revise: Colonisation in North AmericaUnlike indentured servitude, chattel slavery legally treated people as property rather than workers serving a limited contractual term.
Paper 2
Distinguish indentured servitude, which had a contractual term, from chattel slavery.
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Colonial slavery was chattel slavery: enslaved people were treated as property. They could be bought, sold, inherited or transferred to another owner. They could not freely choose their employer or leave their work.
Paper 3
A system in which people are legally treated as property that can be bought, sold or inherited. In the colonies, this status was normally lifelong and passed from an enslaved mother to her children.
Revise: The Development of the Slave-Based EconomyThe system became more firmly established through chattel slavery, which treated human beings as property. Enslaved people could be bought, sold and inherited. Their status was normally lifelong, and children born to enslaved mothers were themselves enslaved.