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GCSE History · key term
A system in which people are treated as property and forced to work without freedom to leave.
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Paper 1
A system in which people are treated as property, deprived of freedom and forced to work for others.
Revise: Differences Between the North and SouthSlavery was central to these divisions. It connected disagreements about work, wealth, society and political power. The conflict cannot simply be reduced to an industrial North opposing an agricultural South: both regions had farming, and neither population held a single set of views.
Paper 2
Link economic differences to slavery and political power: describing factories and plantations alone does not explain rising tension.
Distinguish abolitionism from opposition to slavery’s expansion. Someone could oppose new slave states without demanding slavery’s immediate abolition.
Explain states’ rights in context: Southern leaders used this argument to defend a social and economic system centred on slavery.
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A system in which people are held as property, forced to work and denied personal freedom.
Yet slavery continued in the new United States. Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration, himself enslaved more than one hundred people. This shows how revolutionary claims about liberty could coexist with the denial of liberty to others.
Paper 2, Paper 3
A system in which people are treated as property and forced to work without freedom to leave; in Britain’s Atlantic colonies, enslaved status became hereditary.
Revise: African Migration and Communities (c.1500–1900)The episode shows both an attempt to treat an African person as property and that person’s resistance. It supports a distinction between domestic service and slavery in Tudor England. The surviving petition does not reveal the eventual court decision, so it cannot establish the man’s later circumstances.
A system in which people are treated as property and compelled to work without freedom to leave.
Paper 1, Paper 3
Revise: Early African and Indian migrantsSome migrants came freely for employment; others were brought against their will through slavery. Their origins alone therefore do not tell us whether they were free or how they were treated.
A system in which people were legally treated as property, forced to work and denied control over their lives.
A system in which people are treated in law as property, deprived of freedom and forced to work for others.